The ''Pilgrims at Emmaus'' (French: ''Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs''), also called the ''Supper at Emmaus'', is a painting by

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, made about 1533 or 1534, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

History

The date of this picture has been debated. Crowe and Cavalcaselle put it down to the year 1547 (about); Gronau and Ricketts think it was painted somewhat earlier, about 1543. The ''Louvre'' dates it even earlier, to between 1533 and 1534.''Louvre'' 2019. It belonged to the group of Mantuan pictures bought in 1628 by

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. It entered the collections of Iabach and

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. In the eighteenth century it was in the

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of the Chapel at Versailles. A replica, which, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century was preserved in the

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, belongs now to the

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.Gronau 1904, p. 283.

References

Sources

* Gronau, Georg (1904). ''

''. London: Duckworth and Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 168–169, 283. * Ricketts, Charles (1910). ''

''. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 105, 106, 115, 117, 179.
"Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs"
''Collections: Louvre''. 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022. {{Authority control Paintings by Titian Paintings depicting the Supper at Emmaus