ANTWERP SCHOOL, FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY | The Last Supper

This composition is closely related to the painting recorded in the records of the RKD as at the Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht, inv. no. 46, and at the Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, inv. no. ABM s 46. Although the attitudes of Christ and his disciples are identical, the figures' dress and other details differ here quite considerably and the author of this work has reduced and adapted the background, including motifs such as the open shutters to the left and right. The work in Utrecht is dated to circa 1515 and attributed to an Antwerp Mannerist, possibly the Master of 1518 (probably synonymous with Jan van Dornicke), an attribution to Jan Swart van Groningen having been rejected.