Keywords: Master KIP - The Last Supper - Walters 44338.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Master KIP Christ and the eleven apostles -Judas having departed- are seated along one side and at the ends of a wooden table covered with a cloth In the foreground there are a wine-pot and a salver on edge Behind the group the wall is pierced with a bull's-eye window and there are square windows on the side walls This Last Supper should more properly be called the Giving of the New Commandment as it copies a woodcut executed by Albrecht Dürer in 1523 B VII 53 under the influence of two publications of Martin Luther These are The Sermon of the New Testament that is on Holy Mass 1520 and the Formula of the Mass 1523 The moment referred to is when after Judas had left Christ gave to the eleven apostles the new commandment that you love one another as I loved you John 15 12 Dürer's woodcut is the first known work of art alluding to a Lutheran Holy Communion service Dürer included a representation of the chalice on the table to emphasize the communion of the congregation with wine; the enameller has avoided this detail middle Other date century 16 Early Modern technique painted enamel copper cm 5 8 8 accession number 44 338 11932 Frédéric Spitzer Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim Paris April 17 1893 no 440 Charles Borradaile Brighton date of acquisition unknown by purchase Borradaile Sale II no 24 George Robinson Harding London date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1902 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Master KIP Copies of Albrecht Dürer works Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum |