The Last Supper

between 1514 and 1525

Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen Netherlandish, between 1472 and 1477-1533

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Title The Last Supper

Artwork Date between 1514 and 1525

Artist Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen

Life Dates between 1472 and 1477-1533

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Netherlandish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

Dimensions Overall (including leaded framework): 1/2 × 9 3/8 inches (1.3 × 23.8 cm)

Classification Stained Glass

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 36.96

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until 1923, (Grovesnor Thomas, London, England)

until 1936, by descent to his son, (Roy Grovesnor Thomas, New York, New York, USA)

1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Husband, T. Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Silver-stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 39, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 106, 112.

Husband, T. The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1995, pl. 10 and cat. no. 40

Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass Before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America 7), vol. I, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. London, 2001, pp. 225-229.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

after Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, The Last Supper, between 1514 and 1525, colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 36.96.