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The ''Pilgrims at Emmaus'' (French: ''Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs''), also called the ''Supper at Emmaus'' (''Le Souper à Emmaüs''), is a painting by
Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...
, 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.


See also

*
List of works by Titian This incomplete list of works by Titian contains representative portraits and mythological and religious works from a large oeuvre that spanned 70 years. (Titian left relatively few drawings.) Painting titles and dates often vary by source. Lis ...


References


Sources

* Gronau, Georg (1904). ''
Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...
''. London: Duckworth and Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 168–169, 283. * Ricketts, Charles (1910). ''
Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...
''. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 105, 106, 115, 117, 179.
"Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs"
''Collections: Louvre''. 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022. 1533 paintings 1534 paintings Paintings by Titian Paintings of the Supper at Emmaus {{1530s-painting-stub