Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)
after Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602)
Last Supper
INV-8106
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)
after Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602)c. 1685
pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1685
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
Dimensions
22.2 × 41.4 cm (8 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
In 1692, Charles II summoned Luca Giordano to Spain to paint the ceilings in the Escorial. In 1702 he returned to Naples. This is a copy he made after Agostino Carracci's painting of the Last Supper, now in the Prado, Madrid.