Jean Duvet as Saint John the Evangelist

1555

Jean Duvet

Artist, French, 1485 - c. 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.6 × 21 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.280

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eisler 1979, no. 65, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1947

  • The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 137, repro.

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

Bibliography

1979

  • Eisler, Colin. The Master of the Unicorn: The Life and Work of Jean Duvet. New York: Abaris Books,1979.

Inscriptions

"IOH / DVVET / AURIF AB / LINGON / ANOR 70 / HAS / HIST / PER FECIT" recto, on plate, on tablet at center left. "LIB / APOC / BEAT / IOH / APO" recto, on plate, on right page of book at center left. "FATA PREMUT / TREPIDANT QS / MANVS IAM / LUMINA FALLUNT / MENS RESTAT / VICTRIX GRA / DEQ SVADET / OPVS" recto, on plate, in lake at center right. "SACRA IN HACC ET ALLIS SEQUETIBUS / TABELLIS CONTENTA MISTERIA EX / DIVINA IOHANNIS APOCALIPSI DESUPTA / SUNT AC VERAE LITERAE TEXTVS / PROXIME ACCOMODATE ADHIBITO / ETIAM VIRORUM PERITIORVM IVDICIO" recto, on plate, on plaque at lower left.

Markings

"National Gallery of Art, LJR" verso, lower left margin, black stamped ink. Illegible mark verso, lower left margin, faded red ink.

Wikidata ID

Q65077466

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