Currently not on view
Study for the Last Supper,
ca. 1603
Filippo Bellini, Italian, ca. 1550–1603
x1951-63
This luminous drawing recently was identified as a work by Filippo Bellini, one of Federico Barocci’s most talented followers in the Marches. Squared for transfer, it is a compositional study for Last Supper, a large canvas in the Duomo of Macerata on which Bellini was working at the time of his death. The nocturnal effects, muscular foreground figures, and obliquely angled table indicate the influence of the Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, with whom the drawing was formerly associated.
Information
Title
Study for the Last Supper
Dates
ca. 1603
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on beige laid paper, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
25.8 × 39.6 cm (10 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
frame: 45.7 × 61 × 3.2 cm (18 × 24 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1951-63
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: 6-pointed star with circle in center within circle, surmounted by 3-pointed crown
Verso, lower right: [several obliterated initials or words]: G B
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 689
Culture
Materials
Subject
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): p. 22-23., p. 23
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 139, no. 448 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 243, app. no. 50 (illus.)
