The ragged son kneels with his shaved head pressed against his old father, who rests both hands on his back. To the right the elder brother stands upright, lit but apart, and other figures watch from the shadows. Among Rembrandt's last works, painted within a year or two of his death in 1669, it turns the parable of forgiveness into near silence.
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Compare the father's hands: the left is broad and masculine, the right slender and softer. One of the son's shoes has slipped off, baring a worn sole.
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