Mariano Salvador Maella - The Last Supper [c.1784]

Mariano Salvador Maella - The Last Supper [c.1784], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

A preparatory sketch for a work intended possibly the private chapel of the Infante Don Antonio Pascual in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez. The composition is very similar to The Last Supper painted by Maella in 1794 and preserved in the Royal Palace of Madrid.

Mariano Salvador Maella (Valencia, August 21, 1739 - Madrid, May 10, 1819) was a Spanish painter. He became painter of the chamber to the king and director general of the Acadmia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Along with Bayeu in 1775 he was commissioned to repaint and restore the dilapidated canvases by Juan de Borgona in the cloister of the Cathedral of Toledo. As an engraver, he illustrated the vignettes published with the works of Francisco Quevedo in 1772.

[Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - Oil on canvas, 36 x 94 cm]