About the Artwork
The Last Supper
ca. 1678
Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
1631-1681
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 44 × 63 1/4 inches (111.8 × 160.7 cm) Framed: 55 1/4 × 76 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (140.3 × 194.3 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Ralph Harman Booth
26.103
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, with a false signature, lower left: N. Poussin F. S. 1661
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Provenance
Jean de Julienne (Paris, France)
May 12, 1767, auction J. de Julienne, lot 127 (as Philippe van Champaigne)
M. Foulquier de Labastide (France)
1926, sold at (art market, London, England)
1926, purchased by Ralph Harman Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Salon de l'Academie Royale de Toulouse. Exh. cat. Toulouse, 1774, no. 37.
Salon de l'Academie Royale de Toulouse. Exh. cat. Toulouse, 1784, no. 19.
Fontaine, André. "L'esthétique janséniste" Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 24 (1908): pp. 143-144.
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. “Gift of Four Important Paintings: Correggio, Van Dyck, Poussin and Zurbaran.” Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 1 (1926): pp. 7-8 (ill.). [as Nicolas Poussin.]
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. and Clyde H. Burroughs. A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1927, p. 21.
“Detroit Institute of Arts.” American Art Annual 24 (1927): p. 131.
Heil, Walter. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 29 (ill.). [as Philippe de Champaigne.]
A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1930, p. 11.
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Georges de La Tour, Antoine Le Nain, Louis Le Nain, Mathieu Le Nain. Exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. New York, 1936, cat. 41.
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Georges de La Tour, Antoine Le Nain, Louis Le Nain, Mathieu Le Nain. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1937, cat. 41.
Blunt, Anthony. “The Triclinium in Religious Art.” Journal of the Warburg Institute 2, no. 3 (January 1939): 271-276, p. 275, note 3.
Richardson, Edgar Preston ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 24, no. 29. [as Philippe de Champaigne.]
Whitcomb, Edgar et al. “The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1947: Care of the Collections.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 27, no. 2 (1948): 34-36, p.35.
Pach, Walter. The Art Museum in America. New York, 1948, p. 115.
Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 153.
Keys, Nelson Beecher and Edward Felix Gallagher. Hope of the Nation. Gastonia, 1952, p. 231.
The Art of Eating. Exh. cat., Ringling Museum of Art. Sarasota, 1956, cat. 6, p. 8.
Héritage de France. Exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, 1961, cat. 12 (ill.).
Let There be Light. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1964, cat. 208 (ill.).
Clayton, Wallace. The Growth of a Great Museum: An Informal History of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 45.
Parker, Clifford Stetson. Lectures culturelles françaises. New York, 1966, p. 358.
Gods and Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, 1968, cat. 6, pl. 29.
Betcherman, Lita-Rose. “Canada.” The Burlington Magazine 103, no. 705 (December 1971): 526, 529, p.526.
Dorival, Bernard. Philippe de Champaigne 1602-1674. Paris, 1976, vol. 2, p. 292, no. 1646 (ill.).
Dorival, Bernard. "La Cene (1678) de Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne." Bulletin de la Societé de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Paris, 1976, p. 38, no. 1646, pl. 1646; 1978, pp. 99-110 (fig. 1). [as by Jean Baptiste de Champaigne.]
Mesuret, R. Les expositions de l'Academie Royale de Toulouse de 1751 à 1791. Toulouse, 1972, p. 253, no. 2439 and p. 428, no. 4771.
Rosenberg, Pierre. France in the Golden Age, Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, et al. Paris, 1982, pp. 231-232, cat. 13 (ill.).
“Annual Report: Reattributions” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 62, no. 2 (1985) p.23.
Wright, Christopher. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston, 1985. p. 151.
Dorival, Bernard. Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631-1681): la vie, l'homme et l'art. Paris, 1992, pp. 44, 95, 105, fig 63 (ill.).
Eeckhout, P. “Philippe de Champaigne et les symboles de sel.” Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art 61 (1992): pp. 161-180.
Beresford, Richard. “Review: Supplément au Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre de Philippe de Champaigne.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1087 (October 1993): 702-704, p. 703.
Bajou, Thierry. Paintings at Versailles: XVIIth Century. Paris, 1998, p. 302.
MacGregor, Neil and Oliver Bonfait. Le Dieu Caché: Les peintres du Grand Siècle et la vision de Dieu. Exh. cat., Académie de France. Rome, 2000, cat. 38, pp. 177, 179-180 (ill.).
Conisbee, Philip, Richard Rand and Joseph Baillio. French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century. Washington, 2009, p. 51.
Ziskin, Rochelle. Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris. University Park, 2012, pp. 195, 316 note 98.
De Flores, Rev. Ralph F. Jesus and the Essenes: The Untold Story. Pittsburgh, 2017, p. 261 (ill.).
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 98.
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Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, The Last Supper, ca. 1678, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ralph Harman Booth, 26.103.
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