Supper at Emmaus

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso of secondary support, center, in graphite: "213 / Titian"; in pen and dark brown ink: "Barnard/ Reynolds/ Udney"

Exhibition history

New York, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, Master Drawings, Nov. 6–Dec. 4, 1971, cat. 3. Princeton University Art Museum, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540–1680, Oct. 3–Nov. 21, 1982, p. 122, cat. 42 (ill.); also Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Jan. 27–Apr. 11, 1983; and Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Apr. 23–June 19, 1983. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 202-3 204, (ill.), 320, cat. 72, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Publications

Brigitte Volk-Knüttel,, Peter Candid Zeichnungen, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 1979, p. 14 (ill.). Brigitte Volk-Knüttel, Peter Candid (um 1548--1628): Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik. (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 2010), pp. 211-12, cat. Z14 (ill).

Quick Overview

Artist: Pieter de Witte / Flemish, 1548-1628
Date: 1590/95
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and black ink wash, with opaque white watercolor, on tan laid paper prepared with yellow ocher, incised with graphite for transfer
Dimensions: 23.4 × 18.2 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink or chalk wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: David Adler Fund
Accession no.: 1972.23

Provenance

John Barnard (died 1784), London [verso inscription]. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), London [verso inscription]. Robert Udney (1725–1802), London and Teddington [verso inscription]. John Thane (1748–1818), London [stamp (Lugt 1544) recto, lower left, in black]. R. J. M. Spranger, Esq.; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 1, 1970, lot 166. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.