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before the Sultan at the gates of the city of Morocco.—Salon, 1880.


LAST SUPPER, Fra Angelico, Convent of S. Marco, Florence; fresco on wall.

By Francesco Bassano, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 7 ft. Table set at an angle in a hall of Roman architecture; St. Peter, at right of Jesus, holds a knife; in front, Judas, with his back to the spectator; in the angle of the table a dog and a cat quarrelling over a bone.—Madrazo.

By Bonifazio, Uffizi, Florence. Christ has his hand on the shoulder of St. John, who leans his head upon the table, as in the fresco of Andrea del Sarto, in S. Salvi, Florence.—Larousse, iii. 703.

By Dierick Bouts, St. Peter, Louvain. This picture, an altarpiece, with wings, bears the signature of Memling, but the best critics regard it as the work of Bouts. The figures are distributed with great artistic judgment around a quadrangular table, and exhibit an admirable variety in action, character, and expression. Completed in 1467.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 108; Larousse, iii. 704; Van Even, Nederlandsche Konstenaers (Amsterdam, 1858).

Last Supper, Philippe de Champaigne, Louvre.

By Philippe de Champaigne, Louvre; canvas, H. 5 ft. 2 in. × 7 ft. 8 in. In centre, Christ, seated before a table, surrounded by the disciples, raises his eyes to heaven and blesses the bread. Painted in 1648 for Abbey of Port Royal. Repetitions, with changes, Lyons Museum, and in chapel of Chamber of Peers in the Luxembourg. Engraved by A. Girardet in Musée français; Chataigner.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Filhol, v. Pl. 295; Réveil, vi. 376.

By Michael Coxcie, Brussels Museum; triptych. Central panel, Last Supper; right, Washing of Feet; left, Christ in Garden. Formerly in Church of St. Gudule; placed in Museum in 1794.

By Lucas Cranach, the elder (?), Church of Wittenberg; triptych. Centre, Last Supper, with disciples seated around a circular table; right wing, Sacrament of Baptism, administered by Melanchthon in presence of an assistant and three sponsors; left wing, Confession, the confessor a portrait of Bugenhagen. Predella, with Christ Crucified in centre, and on one side a pulpit with Luther preaching.—Larousse, iii. 704; Kugler (Crowe), i. 193; Schadow, Wittenberg's Denkmaler, etc. (1825).