The Last Supper

1523

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This is a drawing of a group of figures seated around a long table. A table is centered in the drawing, covered with a cloth and various items placed upon it. Several figures are leaning over the table from both sides. Behind them, the background suggests a wall with lined texture and small windows. A round, luminous object is depicted above the central figure. The architecture and furnishings depicted have a medieval or Renaissance quality.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 21.2 × 30 cm (8 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.5 × 30.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3688

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 184

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, Schloss 'E' sale 41, May 1929, no. 267); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1949

  • Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

1960

  • Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 9.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 259.

Inscriptions

verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 267

Markings

verso, lower left: NGA stamp

Watermarks

high crown (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q18339690

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