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Prints and Drawings
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Diego López de Escuriaz, Spanish, active ca. 1587–97
The Last Supper: design for the hood of a liturgical cope
probably 1589
Pen, brown ink and brown wash with white heightening on blue paper, pricked for transfer
Sheet: 50.8 × 41.6 cm (20 × 16 3/8in.)
Framed: 74.9 × 59.7 cm (29 1/2 × 23 1/2in.)
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
2004.82.1
Geography:
Made in Spain
Status:
By appointment
Culture:
Spanish
Period:
16th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
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.
This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography:
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
