Da Vinci's The Last Supper — Hand-Painted Oil Reproduction

Public-domain scan of the original shown for reference. Your canvas is hand-painted to order and photographed for your approval before shipping.

Reference image: Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper high res.jpg — Leonardo da Vinci, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Your canvas is hand-painted to order.

Price by canvas size

Every The Last Supper we paint is made to order, so the price tracks the canvas size and the amount of brushwork involved. These are the sizes our customers order most:

Estimates only — the final quote depends on your exact size, frame and shipping destination. Framing and shipping are quoted separately. Duties and import taxes are the buyer's responsibility (DAP).

Why the perspective is the whole painting

Every architectural line in The Last Supper — the ceiling beams, the wall panels, the table edges — converges on a single point behind Christ's head. It is the most famous use of one-point perspective in art, and it only works if those lines are laid in correctly from the first pass. A painter who improvises the architecture ends up with a room that does not quite meet.

Prints hide the problem because the geometry is already solved, but they lose the atmosphere: the original's surface is matte, dry and fragile, with figures modelled in thin tempera rather than oil. Painted in oil on canvas, the figures gain a depth the damaged mural has largely lost, and the composition still reads from across a large room.

There is a test we encourage buyers to use on any "oil painting" they are offered: run a fingernail very gently across the surface. A hand-painted canvas feels like terrain. A print feels like glass.

The painting itself

It was painted for the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, on a dry wall rather than wet plaster, which is why it began to deteriorate within twenty years and has been restored — and argued over — ever since. Leonardo chose the moment after Christ says that one of the twelve will betray him, and painted the reaction rather than the announcement.

For a copyist the difficulty is the twelve heads: each has to be individually characterised and lit from the same window on the left, or the group collapses into a row of similar faces. Because the original is 460 × 880 cm, we most often paint this at 60 × 120 cm or 90 × 180 cm, keeping the wide proportion rather than squaring it up.

How our painters reproduce it

Our studio is in Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen — the centre of hand-painted oil reproduction for more than thirty years. A The Last Supper here is not traced, projected or transferred. The painter works freehand from a high-resolution reference, in layers:

1. Composition and ground. The canvas is toned and the main forms laid out in a thin underpainting, matching the original proportions to your chosen size.
2. Colour build-up. The palette is mixed in oil, not acrylic — only oil gives the same depth, slow blending and the slightly translucent glow the original depends on.
3. Impasto and surface passes. The signature strokes go on last, loaded with paint, following the direction of the original's brushwork. This is the slowest and most skilful stage.
4. Drying and inspection. Layered oil needs days to set properly. We let it. Then the finished canvas is checked against the reference for colour, composition and stroke character.

Where it hangs best

A wide, low composition with a vanishing point behind Christ's head — built for a long wall. Rooms our customers choose most often:

• Dining room — the subject and the proportion both belong above a long table
• Living room — above a sideboard or long low sofa
• Boardroom or study — a wide wall that needs one deliberate piece
• Hospitality — restaurant private rooms and hotel dining spaces

Framing

Choose gold to echo the original's warmth, matte black for a contemporary room, walnut for a traditional interior, or no frame at all as a gallery-wrap canvas ready to hang. Frames are quoted separately and packed with corner protection.

How ordering works

1. Tell us the painting, size and frame. WhatsApp is fastest — include a wall photo if you want sizing advice.
2. Get an exact quote. Usually within the hour, with the timeline confirmed in writing.
3. 70% deposit starts the painting. Paid by bank transfer, PayPal, credit card or Wise.
4. We send photographs of the finished painting. You review it before anything ships. If something clearly does not match your order notes, tell us and we adjust it.
5. Pay the 30% balance, then we ship. Tracked worldwide courier, rolled in a rigid tube or crated if framed.

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