The Supper at Emmaus

c. 1709

Benedetto Luti

Artist, Roman, 1666 - 1724

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash with touches of red chalk, heightened with white gouache on laid paper washed tan, with some outlines incised for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.5 x 32.4 cm (17 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.122

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector TB (Lugt 416a). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063]; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, no. 92 (Peter Dreyer).

1979

  • Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, no. 162 (not reprod.).

1995

  • Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 33.

1996

  • Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 33.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 42.

Bibliography

1980

  • Hiesinger, Ulrich W., and Ann Percy, eds.A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1980: 20, under no. 9 (entry by Edgar Peters Bowron).

1990

  • Schulze Altcappenberg, Hein-Th., and Susannah Cremer. Facetten des Barock: Meisterzeichnungen von Gianlorenzo Bernini bis Anton Raphael Mengs aus dem Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Dusseldorf, 1990: 82. under no. 27.

Wikidata ID

Q64537198

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