The Prodigal Son (sculpture)

The Prodigal Son
A version at Legion of Honor, San Francisco, in 2012
Artist	Auguste Rodin

The Prodigal Son is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin.

Versions

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Versions exist in several museums, including:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London: c. 1885–1887, bronze^[1]
Musée Rodin, Paris: 1905, bronze^[2]
The San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, California: 1905, bronze^[3]^[4]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art^{[citation needed]} California: 1967, bronze

References

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^ "Auguste Rodin, 'The Prodigal Son' | V&A". Vam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^ "The Prodigal Son | Rodin Museum". Musee-rodin.fr. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^ "At SDMA, a move from the vault to the open air". The San Diego Union-Tribune. 12 March 2016. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^ "The Prodigal Son, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.

External links

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Media related to The Prodigal Son by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons

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Works	List of sculptures Man with the Broken Nose (1863) Alsatian Orphan (1871) Suzon (1872–73) The Age of Bronze (1876) La Defense (1879) The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880) The Shade (1880) The Gates of Hell (1880/1917) The Thinker (1880, locations) Adam (1880–81) Eve (1881) Crouching Woman (1880–1882) Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907) Ugolino and His Sons (1881) The Kiss (1882) I Am Beautiful (1882) The Falling Man (1882) Jules Dalou (1883) Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883) Bust of Victor Hugo (1883) Eternal Springtime (1884) Torso of Adele (c. 1884) The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889) Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911) The Prodigal Son (1885) Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885) The Martyr (1885) Psyche Looking at Love (1885) Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86) Jean d'Aire (1885–86) Jean de Fiennes (1885–86) Avarice and Lust (1885–1887) Damned Women (1885–1890) The Old Tree (1885) Paolo and Francesca (1885) Young Mother (1885) Young Mother in the Grotto (1885) Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885) The Three Shades (1886) Meditation (1886) Fugitive Love (1886–87) Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889) Pierre de Wiessant (1887) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889) Andromeda (1889) Glaucus (1889) Kneeling Female Faun (1889) The Succubus (1889) Despair (c. 1890) Brother and Sister (1890) Danaid (1890) Cybele (1890/1904) Monument to Balzac (1892–1897) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892) Youth Triumphant (c. 1894) Octave Mirdeau (1895) Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895) Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896) The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99) Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900) The Athlete (1901–1904) The Death of Adonis (1903–1906) Adam and Eve (1905) The Walking Man (1907) The Cathedral (1908) The Prayer (1909) Standing Female Faun (1910)
Museums	Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador Plateau (closed)
People	Camille Claudel
Depictions	1888–89 Claudel bust 1909 Bourdelle bust Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph) Camille Claudel (1988 film) Camille Claudel (2003 musical) Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film) Rodin (2017 film)
Related	Rodin (crater)
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Public art in San Diego

Works

May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden	Aim I Big Open Skull Border Crossing/Cruzando el Rio Bravo Cubi XV Figure for Landscape Mother and Daughter Seated Night Presence II Odyssey III The Prodigal Son Reclining Figure: Arch Leg Solar Bird Sonata Primitive Spinal Column Two Lines Oblique: San Diego The Watchers