The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 22, 2025
The Last Supper
1521
(Dutch, 1494–1533)
Sheet: 11.5 x 7.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1923.55.1
Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 43
Location: 101B Prints & Drawings
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This image is smaller than most smart phones, inviting the viewer to lean in and look closely.Description
In this compact scene, Lucas van Leyden offered a condensed view of the Last Supper, focusing on Christ and Saint John—the Beloved Apostle—on the far side of the table and Judas—the apostle who would betray Christ—on the near side. Wine flows freely, mixing hints of its symbolic significance with a certain hunger for drink as shown by the disciple who receives a replenishment in the foreground. The artist may have seen or owned the 1510 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, borrowing elements such as the vertical format, Christ’s relationship to John, and the platter on the table but rendering them in reverse and with fewer overall figures.- A. MorrisonGerstenberg?–1923(Arthur H. Harlow and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)January 22, 1923–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2025-January 11, 2026).Prints by Lucas Van Leyden and His Contemporaries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 28-April 2, 1939).
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