Design for a applique depicting the Last Supper

Inventory number: CVH 511
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design for a appliqué(?) or Guild’s coat of arms in silver, with a depiction of the Last Supper in the cartouche in the centre. The apostles have gathered round the table; Christ is sitting on the front left, beneath a projecting canopy, and the bread is broken, while he turns around slightly; on the table in front of him is the chalice. A person at the back of the scene is serving. The whole scene is set in a frugal interior, with a niche in the rear wall in which the Torah lies. The appliqué itself bears, on the left and right, ears of corn and bunches of grapes and Eucharistic motifs.

Artist:

Joannes Petrus Antonius Verschuylen

Dating:

unknown

Material:

Black ink on sepia paper

Dimensions:

321 x 202 mm

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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