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Kitchen Scene with the Supper at Emmaus


Kitchen Pieces with Biblical Scenes in the Background
Jacob Matham (Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
After: Pieter Aertsen (Dutch, 1507/8–1575)
about 1603

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Image: 23.2 x 32.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 24.6 x 33 cm (9 11/16 x 13 in.)
Sheet: 25.2 x 33.5 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK4696
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 165; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. 11) 320
InscriptionsIn plate below image, l.l.: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. M.; b.c.: IESUS in fractione panis agnoscitur; l.r.: Jacobus Maetham fecit
Provenance1889, Henry C. Whipple (d. 1903), Philadelphia; by exchange to Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 – d. 1900, first curator of prints at MFA), By 1889, Henry C. Whipple (b. 1823 - d. 1903), Philadelphia; 1886, gift (by exchange) of Whipple to Sylvester Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, MA, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900.