Bernardo Strozzi (Il Prete Genovese or Il Cappuccino)
Italian, 1581-1664
Christ at Emmaus Presenting the Bread
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Bernardo Strozzi (Il Prete Genovese or Il Cappuccino)
Italian, 1581-16641630/40
Christ at Emmaus Presenting the Bread
Bernardo Strozzi (Il Prete Genovese or Il Cappuccino) Italian, 1581-1664 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
1630/40
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper with blue fibers
Dimensions
30.2 × 24.2 cm (11 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Depicted in profile, Christ seems compellingly real, his humanity as tangible as the bread he holds in his gnarled hands or the folds of his cloak on the chair. Drawn with black and white chalks on a somewhat faded blue paper, this sheet was undoubtedly a preparatory study for one of the 18 known paintings of the Supper at Emmaus produced by this Genoese-born artist and his workshop, probably during his later years working in Venice. For a Capuchin monk like Strozzi, the story of Christ’s appearance to two strangers on the road to Emmaus offered a chance to portray his divinity in very human terms.
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Possibly after Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581-1664) or Francis Le Piper (English, 1640-1698) or Bartolommeo Manfredi (Italian, c. 1580-c. 1620) or style of Leonard Bramer (Dutch, 1596-1674)