The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495-97 at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan and already well-known in the 17th century from engravings, inspired this drawing. Rembrandt uses Leonardo’s composition, but it was the overall effect that interested him most: the figure of Christ in the middle, the dais and canopy, the vast room, the long tablecloth structuring the space, and the dumbfounded apostles…
Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) (1606 – 1669)
1634-35
Red chalk on paper – H. 36.5 cm; W. 47.5 cm – Inscription and signature in red chalk along the lower edge – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv 1975.1.79
1634-35
Red chalk on paper – H. 36.5 cm; W. 47.5 cm – Inscription and signature in red chalk along the lower edge – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv 1975.1.79
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. RMN / image of the MMA