The gathering of manna and Passover (recto left), The last supper (middle), The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek and Elijah awakened by the angel (1 Kings 19:5-6) (recto right), 1464-1468
panel (wood), oil paint, 183 x 152.5 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
- 1464-1468
- Attribution place
- Title
- The gathering of manna and Passover (recto left), The last supper (middle), The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek and Elijah awakened by the angel (1 Kings 19:5-6) (recto right)
- Other/old title
- De Sacramentstriptiek
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Iconclass
'Pesah', Passover ~ Jewish religion
the meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, the high priest and king of Salem, who brings bread and wine (Genesis 14:18-20)
an angel wakes Elijah; a loaf of bread and a jar of water are usually at Elijah's head
institution of the Eucharist, i.e. Christ showing or blessing bread (host) and/or wine (Matthew 26:26-27; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20; John 13:26; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25)
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 183 x 152.5 cm
- Physical relationship
Bouts, Dieric
Passover, art work number: 36844
Bouts, Dieric
The Last Supper, art work number: 36841
Bouts, Dieric
The meeting of Abram [Abraham] and Melchizedek, the high priest and king of Salem, who brings bread and wine (Genesis 14:18-24), art work number: 36843
Bouts, Dieric
The prophet Elijah fed by the angel on Mount Horeb (I Kings 19:5-6), art work number: 36845
De volgorde van de panelen van de zijluiken is niet altijd hetzelfde geweest.
- Collection(s)
- Sint-Pieterskerk (Leuven)
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Friedländer 1967-1976, dl. 3, nr. 18
- Butzkamm 1990
- Ridderbos/Van Veen 1995, p. 366-374
- Comblen-Sonkes 1996, p. 61-73
- Smeyers/Smeyers 1998, p. 35-58
- Périer-d'Ieteren/Henderiks 2005, p. 273, nr. 15
met afb. in kleur en opgave van herkomst, tentoonstellingen en literatuur
- Other literature
- R. Lefève en F. van Molle, 'De oorspronkelijke schikking van de luiken van Bouts' Laatste Avondmaal', Bulletin Koninklijk Instituut van het Kunstpatrimonium 3 (1960), p. 5-19
- J.G. van Gelder, 'Het zogenaamde portret van Dieric Bouts op het 'Werc van den Heilichen Sacrament', Oud-Holland 66 (1951), p. 51
- E. Wouk, 'Dirk Bouts's Last Supper Altarpiece and the sacrament van mirakel at Louvain', Immediations 1 (2005), nr. 2, p. 40-53
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