Banquet of Jupille

The Banquet of Jupille (French:Le Banquet de Jupille) is a painting by Belgian painter Auguste Chauvin — first exhibited in 1861.

The painting was commissioned by the Belgian state and the city of Liège in 1855 and is influenced by twelfth century Italian mannerism. It represents an incident in the lore of Saint Lambert, the bishop of Maastricht. The painting depicts Lambert, around 705 CE, addressing Pepin of Herstal and Alpaide, the second wife of Pepin and mother of Charles Martel. Alpaide usurps the place of Plectrude, the first and legitimate wife of Pepin, and tries to obtain Lambert's blessing by trickery by trying to make him bless her cup during a banquet offered by Pepin in Jupille, a village near the city of Liège. Shortly after the incident, Lambert was assassinated by the troops of Dodon, brother of Alpaide and domesticus of Pepin.

The work was exhibited in 1861 at the Antwerp, then in Berlin in 1862. It remained in the municipal collections of Liège, and in the reserves of the Walloon Art Museum from 1952, finally being moved from there in 1996. That same year, the painting was restored, and it has been exhibited since then at St.Paul's Cathedral in Liège .