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Landon, Musée, iii. Pl. v.; Mündler, 208; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne.
By Velasquez, Earl of Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 5 ft. 2 in. Christ seated with two disciples at a table. From King Louis Philippe sale; purchased from a canon at Seville for £235.—Curtis, 7.
By Paolo Veronese, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. 11 in. From Modena Gallery. Restored by Palmaroli.
By Paolo Veronese, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 9 ft. 6 in. × 14 ft. 8 in.; signed. Christ, seated between the two disciples behind a table spread in a vestibule adorned with columns, raises his eyes to heaven and blesses the bread; behind are three domestics bearing dishes. The painter is said to have represented himself and part of his family in this picture; but it is undecided whether he is the figure at the extreme left or extreme right; his wife stands at the left, with an infant in her arms, and two other of his children are near her; in front, two children play with a large dog. From collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by Thomassin.—Cab. Crozat, ii. Pl. 15; Landon, Musée, xiii. Pl. 17; Felibien, i. 730; Sauval, Antiquités de Paris, ii. 169.
By Paolo Veronese, Stafford House, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 7 in. Christ, seated at table between the two disciples, blesses the bread; a woman and two men behind; in front, a cat and a child play with a dog. From Orléans Gallery; £200.—Stafford Gal., ii. Pl. 21; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 60, 498.
SUPPER, LAST. See Last Supper.
SUPPER OF ST. GREGORY, Georgio
Vasari. See Gregory.
By Paolo Veronese, Convent of Monte Berico, Vicenza; canvas, H. about 18 ft. × 28 ft.; dated 1572. Wantonly mutilated by Austrian soldiers, who hacked it to pieces with their swords while occupying the convent after the bombardment of Vicenza in 1848. The fragments were afterwards put together and the picture restored by Professor Tagliapietra, of Venice.—Guida di Vicenza, 112; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 35.
SÜS, GUSTAV, born at Rumbeck near
Rinteln on the Weser, June 10, 1823, died
in Düsseldorf, Dec. 24, 1881. Genre and
animal painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy
under Karl Sohn in 1850-51. Was
also an illustrator and writer. Works:
First Thought; Two Mothers; Duck Persecution;
Cock Fight; Domestic Joy and
Sorrow; Evening Song (Chickens and Pigeons),
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Three
Philosophers; Great Event; Stable Tragedy
(1882).—Kunst-Chronik. xvii. 224; Müller,
512; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 370; Illustr.
Zeitg. (1883), i. 448; ii. 168.
Susanna, Lodovico Carracci, National Gallery, London.
SUSANNA, Lodovico Carracci, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. 7 in. Scene from apocryphal Book of Susanna. Susanna, surprised by the two elders while preparing to bathe in the garden of Joachim at Babylon, crouches to hide her person, while they attempt to remove her drapery. Formerly in Orléans Gallery; then in Angerstein Collection, whence purchased in 1824.—Rosini, vi. 20; Réveil, vi. 368.