The Supper at Emmaus

c. 1609/1610

Pierre Fatoure

Artist, French, 1584 - 1629

Gabriel Lejeune

Artist, French, active early 17th century

Caravaggio

Artist After, Roman, 1571 - 1610

Pierre Fatoure and Gabriel Lejeune, after Caravaggio

Attributed to

Printed with black ink on light tan paper, this horizontal etching and engraving shows a young man with long hair, Jesus, sitting at a table with one hand lifted. Two people sitting at the table react, and a third stands on the far side, near Jesus’s shoulder. The front corner of the table is near and parallel to the lower right corner of the print. The table is covered with a cloth and holds a bowl of fruit, a roasted game bird, vessels, and a chunk of bread. At the center of the composition, Jesus holds up his right hand, to our left, and hovers his left hand over the table. His eyes are cast down or closed, and he leans slightly to our right. The two men at the table have beards and short, wavy hair. The man to our right holds both arms straight out to his sides as he looks toward Jesus’s hands. A shell is affixed to the front of his cloak. The other man wears tattered robes and sits on our side of the table in a U-shaped wooden chair. He grips the arms of the chair with both hands and juts his head forward, also staring at Jesus’s hands. The fourth person stands and looks down at Jesus in profile, mouth slightly parted. The background is shaded with parallel and overlapping hatching. Inscriptions are printed across the lower margin with “M. age dicarauage In. P. Fatoure: G. giovane f.” to the lower left, “Firmat et accendit diuino Lumine Corda, Cristus quem nostuns augustum frangere panem” at the center, and “Luc 24” in the lower right.

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600): no. 3 (under Lejeune)

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: no. 2

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: M. age dicarauage In. / P. Fatoure: G. giovane f.; lower center in plate: Firmat et accendit divino Lumine Corda / Cristus quem nostuus augustum frangere panem; lower right in plate: Luc 24; by later hand, lower left verso in pen and brown ink: 490. / avant 56.6.44 / [long inscription crossed out]

Watermarks

pot


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