Howard Pyle

Go, Madame, and Leave the Prodigal 'mong His Husks

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March 17, 05:47 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Property from the Estate of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr.

Howard Pyle

1853 - 1911

Go, Madame, and Leave the Prodigal 'mong His Husks

signed Pyle (lower right)

oil on canvas

24 by 16 1/4 in.

61 by 41.3 cm.

Executed in 1908.

Virginia Simmons du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware

Acquired by descent from the above in 1984 by the present owner

James Branch Cabell, "The Ultimate Master," Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1908, p. 283, illustrated

Paul Preston Davis, Howard Pyle His Life - His Work, vol. II, New Castle, Delaware, 2004, no. MBPI1035, p. 465, illustrated

The present work was produced as an illustration for the fictional short story The Ultimate Master by James Branch Cabell. The story was originally published in Harper's Monthly magazine in November 1908.