Constantin MeunierBelgian
The Pardon
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
About the sculpture
Meunier's model for this group showing the return of the prodigal son was first exhibited in 1892. The composition was reworked following the deaths of the sculptor's sons. In its stark realism and emotional directness it closely resembles Meunier's sculptures of miners from the Belgian coalfields, also described in Zola's novels at this period. Manual labour was then an important sculptural theme, sometimes treated in a more overtly political way, as in Dalou's projected Monument to Labour.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 764-1899
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
