Last Supper

Luca Giordano (after Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602))

c. 1685

Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
22.2 × 41.4 cm (8 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.)
Culture
Italy
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

About this work

In 1692, Charles II summoned Luca Giordano to Spain to paint the ceilings in the Escorial. In 1702 he returned to Naples. This is a copy he made after Agostino Carracci's painting of the Last Supper, now in the Prado, Madrid.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0