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The Last Supper

Date: 1786
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 114 x 154 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (289.56 x 392.43 x 13.97 cm) Canvas: 98 x 140 1/2 in. (250 x 360 cm)
Department: American Art before 1950
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund and Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession No.: 80.101
Provenance: Commissioned by George III and presented by him in 1786 to Saint George's Chapel, Windsor. Sale, Dean and Canons of Windsor, Sotheby's, London, June 2, 1978, lot 132. Somerville and Simpson (dealer), London, and P. and D. Colnaghi (dealer), London. Acquired in 1980.
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint, religion

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