Gustave Doré1866

The Prodigal Son Decides to Return to His Father

Having squandered everything, the younger son comes to himself among the swine and resolves to return to his father and confess that he has sinned (Luke 15). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

The Prodigal Son Decides to Return to His Father by Gustave Doré depicting Luke 15:20
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), La Grande Bible de Tours, 1866.Source

Depicted passages

Luke 15:20-24Primary
Portrait of Gustave Doré

About Gustave Doré

1832-1883 · French

Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French illustrator whose 241 wood engravings for "La Grande Bible de Tours" (1866) became the most influential visual interpretation of scripture of the 19th century.

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