The Last Supper
Artist
Erastus Salisbury Field
(American, 1805-1900)
Dateca. 1875-1880
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 35 x 46 in. (88.9 x 116.8 cm)
Overall, Frame: 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm)
ClassificationsAmerican art
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number80.181.16
Terms
- The Last Supper
- Jesus Christ
- Religion
- Apostles
- Tan
- Blue
- Purple
- Yellow
- Red
- White
- Black
- Green
- Brown
- Folk art
- American naive
- Massachusetts
Collections
On View
On viewLabel TextErastus Salisbury Field American, 1805—1900 The Last Supper, ca. 1875-1880 Oil on canvas Erastus Salisbury Field enjoyed a long and varied career, working as a portraitist, photographer, and in the latter decades of his life as a painter of religious and historical subjects. Field based this depiction of the biblical tale of the Last Supper on a chromolithograph, a relatively inexpensive type of color print, of Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco in Milan, Italy. Though Field adhered to the overall composition of the Renaissance master, he included many details drawn from his own world in Connecticut such as the simple glass and pottery table settings and the rolling landscape viewed out the window, which bears a striking resemblance to the Connecticut River Valley. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 80.181.16