Supper at Emmaus

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Prints and Drawings

1590/95

Pieter de Witte
Flemish, 1548-1628

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pieter de Witte
Title: Supper at Emmaus
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1590–1595
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and black ink wash, with opaque white watercolor, on tan laid paper prepared with yellow ocher, incised with graphite for transfer
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso of secondary support, center, in graphite: "213 / Titian"; in pen and dark brown ink: "Barnard/ Reynolds/ Udney"
Dimensions: 23.4 × 18.2 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Fund
Reference Number: 1972.23
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Brigitte Volk-Knüttel,, Peter Candid Zeichnungen, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 1979, p. 14 (ill.).
Brigitte Volk-Knüttel, Peter Candid (um 1548—1628): Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik. (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 2010), pp. 211-12, cat. Z14 (ill).

New York, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, Master Drawings, Nov. 6–Dec. 4, 1971, cat. 3.
Princeton University Art Museum, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540–1680, Oct. 3–Nov. 21, 1982, p. 122, cat. 42 (ill.); also Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Jan. 27–Apr. 11, 1983; and Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Apr. 23–June 19, 1983.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 202-3 204, (ill.), 320, cat. 72, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

John Barnard (died 1784), London [verso inscription]. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), London [verso inscription]. Robert Udney (1725–1802), London and Teddington [verso inscription]. John Thane (1748–1818), London [stamp (Lugt 1544) recto, lower left, in black]. R. J. M. Spranger, Esq.; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 1, 1970, lot 166. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.

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