The Supper at Emmaus

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The Supper at Emmaus

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)LinkedCulture matchlcp-33805e8f7da5

Date
1760/61
Medium
Black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
221187

Known for Rococo fantasies, Jean-Honoré Fragonard brought his light touch to this copy of an Italian Baroque masterpiece. This drawing was made for the erstwhile cleric and avid printmaker Abbé de Saint-Non, who commissioned Fragonard to make copies after important Old Master paintings in Italy. The original painting (now in the National Gallery, London) hung in the Palazzo Borghese in Rome when the two artists visited it in late 1760 or early 1761. It depicts the moment when two of Jesus’s astonished disciples recognize the risen Christ as he blesses a loaf of bread.

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Julius Lewis Fund

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