The Last Supper
ca. 1761–64
Medium
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 3/16 in. (13 x 18.3 cm) plate: 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in. (9.7 x 14.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.386
Tags
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department will delight in *The Last Supper*, a delicate etching on laid paper created by Jean Honor Fragonard around 1761–64, after an original composition by the Venetian Baroque master Sebastiano Ricci. Measuring just 5 1/8 x 7 3/16 inches, this intimate print captures the iconic biblical scene of Christ and his apostles at their final meal, rendered with fine lines that evoke Ricci's dramatic, theatrical style. Fragonard, a leading Rococo artist known for playful, elegant scenes, here pays homage to Ricci's earlier Baroque ex...
About the Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard|Sebastiano Ricci · 1732–1806
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. Born in Grasse, he moved to Paris where he trained under Jean-Baptiste Chardin and François Boucher, winning the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1752. After studying in Italy alongside Hubert Robert, Fragonard returned to Paris in 1761 to fi...