The Last Supper: design for the hood of a liturgical cope

probably 1589

Medium: Pen, brown ink and brown wash with white heightening on blue paper, pricked for transfer
Dimensions: sheet: 20 × 16 3/8 in. (50.8 × 41.6 cm)
framed: 29 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (74.9 × 59.7 cm)
Credit Line: Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
Accession Number: 2004.82.1
Geography: Made in Spain
Culture: Spanish
Period: 16th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

Probably from one of several albums of embroidery designs formerly in the library at the Escorial but dispersed in the 19th century; Sotheby's, New York, January 13–14, 1989, lot 275; Mia Weiner, Norfolk, Conn.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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Bibliography

Lisa Hodermarsky, Suzanne Boorsch, and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 25, 96–97, no. 23, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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