Last Supper, 1866 Nikolay Ge (1831-1894)
Location: The Tretyakov Gallery Moscow RussiaOriginal Size: 66.5 x 89.6 cm
Oil Painting Reproduction
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Description
Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
Museum Quality
+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-9 Weeks
Creation Process
We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.
We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.
High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Nikolay Ge also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.
In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.
TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.
We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.
You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.
Delivery
Once the painting Last Supper is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.
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Museum Quality
The paintings we create are only of museum quality. Our academy graduated artists will never allow a compromise in the quality and detail of the ordered painting. TOPofART do not work, and will never allow ourselves to work with low quality studios from the Far East. We are based in Europe, and quality is our highest priority.
Additional Information
The artist employs a controlled yet expressive brushwork that carefully models the characters’ features. Each stroke reveals furrowed brows, trembling hands, and half-concealed expressions, suggesting the emotional turmoil of betrayal. While the palette remains limited, the arrangement of light and shadow is dramatic: it forms a stark contrast around Judas, whose dark silhouette visually interrupts the gentle illumination around the table. This sharp shift between light and darkness underlines the moral and psychological rupture occurring in the narrative.
Compositionally, the viewer’s gaze is guided in a slow arc from the illuminated faces of Christ and John, through the cluster of apostles in various states of alarm, and finally toward the pronounced outline of Judas. The subtle diagonal formed by Christ’s reclining posture leads directly to the pitcher and the low-placed items of the meal, then sweeps upward to the looming figure at the right. The arrangement underscores the thematic split: loyalty and solace on one side, conflict and departure on the other. Even the empty space behind Judas seems to foreshadow the rift that will soon change the course of events.
This work emerged at a time when biblical scholarship and historical criticism invited fresh re-examination of sacred texts. By adopting these modern influences, the painter broke from canonical iconographic traditions, foregrounding the human dimensions of Christ and Judas alike. The result is a depiction that merges moral drama with psychological insight, shifting focus from purely divine symbolism to the fraught human emotions that resonate throughout the scene. The audacity of this interpretation - paired with a carefully balanced composition and a restrained yet highly charged color scheme - underscores the painting’s enduring significance in Russian art of the mid-nineteenth century.

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