The Last Supper
The Last Supper
- Artist
- Sebastiano Ricci
- Artist Dates
- 1659-1734
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Last Supper
- Date
- 1713/1714
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 67 x 104 cm (26 3/8 x 40 15/16 in)
- K Number
- K1233
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1943.4.32
- Notes
Provenance
Possibly the Manfrin collection, Palazzo Venier, Venice. [1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence), by 1937; purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:400, listed only "Palazzo Venier," while Jeffery Daniels, _Sebastiano Ricci_, Hove, 1976: 153, gives "Venice, Palazzo Venier, Manfrin." Neither offers any documentation. The Palazzo Priuli-Venier was purchased in 1787 by Count Girolamo Manfrin [d. 1801], a wealthy tobacco producer, who installed his art collection there. The painting does not appear in the _Catalogo dei quadri esistenti nella Galleria Manfrin in Venezia_, Venice, 1856, or in the subsequent sales of Manfrin's daughter Giovanna Plattis (Sambon, Venice, 24-25 May 1870) or granddaughter Lina Plattis-Sardegna (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-14 May 1897). On the collection's history, see the prefaces to the sale catalogues and Giuseppe Tassini, _Alcuni palazzi di venezia storicamente illustrata con annotazioni_, Venice, 1879, 191-192. Neither Tassini nor other nineteenth-century guidebooks mention significant art collections in the other Venier palaces. [2] According to notations in the Kress records, NGA curatorial files. Expert opinions by Roberto Longhi, William Suida, and Giuseppe Fiocco on the back of photographs from the Kress files, evidently prepared for Contini, are dated Florence, 1937.