# The Supper at Emmaus, in 18th-century Italy

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta painted this in about 1720, aged about 33. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This painting depicts the biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, when the disguised, resurrected Christ suddenly reveals himself to two astonished disciples as they all sit down to dinner.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1720
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 133.4 x 167 x 9.5 cm (52 1/2 x 65 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 108 x 140.6 cm (42 1/2 x 55 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931.245
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-piazzetta), Italian, 1682–1754

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Giovanni Battista Piazzetta's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-giovanni-battista-piazzetta?hang=749) (8 works)
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