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The Last Supper
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "246"; inscribed by Goll van Franckenstein, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "N 4050"; lower left, in graphite: "Rubens...(possible date)"; lower right, in graphite: "L (illegible) 1 6 / 20269702 1"
Provenance
Gosuinus Uilenbrock (1658–1740), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 23, 1741, one of eleven in Album Q, to Yver. Gabriel Huquier the Elder (1695–1772), Paris; sold, Amsterdam, Sept. 14 (and following days), 1761, Album E, lot 554. Gerardus Schroder, Hardervijk; sold, Amsterdam, Feb. 20 (and following days), 1764, lot 210, to Yver. Maximilian-Léopold-Ghislain de Mérode-Montfort, Prince de Rubempré et d'Everberghe (1710–1773), Brussels; sold, Paris, July 1–6, 1765, lot 253, to Basan. M. Tournier; sold, Paris, Apr. 14 (and following days), 1773, lot 191. Johann Goll van Franckenstein (1722–1785), Amsterdam [inscription (Lugt 2987), verso of mount, lower left, in brown]; presumably by descent to his son Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam. E. J. Reynolds (1876–c. 1932), St. Petersburg and Switzerland [Lugt 900b]. C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, by 1969. Prof. Peter Kröker, Murnau, by 1974. Private collection, New York, by 1991; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 2001, lot 80. Sold by C. G. Boerner, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Feb. 22, 2002 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
New York, C. G. Boerner Inc., Old Master Drawings, Jan. 21–Feb. 8 2002, cat. 17. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection, Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 33, pp. 60–61, 180 (color ill.). San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Early Rubens, Apr. 6–Sept. 2, 2019, pp. 268–269 (ill). Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, Sept. 28, 2019–Jan. 5, 2020, pp. 205 (ill.), 206, 313, cat. 73. Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, 2020; shown only in New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021.
Publications
C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Hundert Zeichnungen, 1969, cat. 80 Justus Müller Hofstede, "Two Unpublished Drawings by Rubens,” Master Drawings 12, no. 2 (summer, 1974), pp. 133-–37, pl. 5 (p. 191). J. Richard Judson and Carl Van de Velde, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXI, Book Illustrations and Title-pages (H. Miller/Heyden, 1978), vol. 1, pp. 141-42, no. 26a; vol. 2, pl. 90. Felice Stampfle, "Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library" (Pierpont Morgan Library/Princeton University Press, 1991), p. 142, under no. 305. J Richard Judson, "Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard", vol. 6, "The Passion of Christ" (Turnhout, 2000), p. 49, fig. 56, p. 52 n. 9.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens / Flemish, 1577–1640
- Date
- late 1613 or early 1614
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 19.7 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.94
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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