About This Artwork

Germany

Part of an Antependium Depicting The Last Supper, 1300/10

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen and silk in pulled thread work in chained border, overcast, and two-sided Italian cross stitches; embroidered in satin, single satin, stem, and stem filling stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave tape
38.3 x 39.4 cm (15 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
Purchased from the Field Museum of Natural History, 1907.765

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Western Textiles," January 25–March 2, 1969

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery,
"Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection," July 27–October 9, 1983

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection"
February 17–May 2, 1993

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 11, 1996–January 12, 1997

The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 142, “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” September 20, 2004–January 4, 2005

Publication History

Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 123, pl. 95.

Renate Kroos. Niedersächsiche Bildstickereien des Mittelalters (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1970).

Christa C. Mayer. "An Early German Needlework Fragment" The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 6 (1971), pp. 66-76.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 36-37, 144.

Laura K. Bruck, Larry J. Feinberg, and Christina M. Nielsen, “The Thirteenth Century,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 46-47, cat. 26.