The Supper at Emmaus
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
The subject is recognition, and nobody in the picture can be recognised.
Luke's travellers know Christ only when he breaks the bread, and he vanishes at once. Veronese, or his workshop, has put a whole family into that scene. The French national record catalogues them only as a man, a woman, a child, a servant, a spaniel. No name, no patron, no commission survives.
The owners are all on the record: the Duke of Savoy in Turin by 1635, then Marshal Créquy, then Louis XIII. The inventory taken at Créquy's death in 1638 listed it with no painter's name.
Sources: Musée du Louvre, collections online, INV 146 / MR 385, "Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs", Object history · POP / Joconde notice 000PE027362, sujet représenté · Luke 24:13-35
And their eyes were opened: and they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight.
Luke 24:31 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 10,300 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.