The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1609/1610

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.8 × 29.8 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann, by Exchange

Catalogue Raisonné

Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 2

Accession Number

2018.105.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre Fatoure (artist) French, 1584 - 1629

Gabriel Lejeune (artist) French, active early 17th century

Caravaggio (artist after) Roman, 1571 - 1610

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Inscription

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]

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

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