Last Supper
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
44.7 × 134.2 cm (17 5/8 × 52 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84509
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings will encounter Albrecht Schmid's *Last Supper*, a captivating chalk drawing from Augsburg, Germany, created by this lesser-known artist around the 18th or 19th century (date unspecified). Measuring an expansive 44.7 × 134.2 cm, its panoramic horizontal format evokes the long communal table of the biblical scene, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the moment of Christ's final meal with his disciples—a motif central to Western Christian art since the Renaissance. Schmid masterfully employs black chalk and charcoal, softened t...