The Last Supper

This is closely connected to Coecke van Aelst's picture The Last Supper of 1531 in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (M.J. Friedländer, Jan van Scorel and Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Leiden Brussels, 1975, no. 151, illustrated), where the roundels on both sides of the window are decorated, while in the foreground at the right a table is shown. The composition was of great influence on Coecke's pupils, one of whom may have executed this drawing, probably in relation to one of the many versions of the master's picture mentioned by Friedländer (op. cit., p. 36), dated up to 1550/1. The landscape in the background is closest to that in the versions in the Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch and in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (inv. no. 1479). The initials and date on the drawing refer to Hendrick Goltzius, who engraved the composition in 1585 (Holl. [VIII] 33).