The Revelation of Saint John the Evangelist

c. 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 within plate mark): 29.7 × 21.2 cm (11 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
    mount: 30.8 × 33.2 cm (12 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.286

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eisler 1979, no. 39

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Lugt 1609 and deaccession stamp [illeg]). (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 70, repro.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 52, repro.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 30, repro.

1987

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

Bibliography

1979

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

Inscriptions

"IOHA / NNES / DV / VET / FAC" recto, on plate, on double-tablet at lower right. "TRES SIMVL AEQUALES PERSONAE SVNT DEVS VNVS + PRINCIPIUM ET FINIS RERVM TESTATE IOHANE" recto, on plate, on halo at upper center. "B IOH APOS SVB PERTINACE PRINCIP AB EXILIO REDIIT EPHESU VBI EVAGEL OIM NO VISSIMO SCRIPSIT QUOD A XPI DIVINA ILLA NATIVATATE INCHOAVIT VT EBIONITARV HERESIM MALA REFELLERET" recto, on plate, on plaque at lower left. "B 13" verso lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Lugt 1609 and [illeg]) verso, lower center, faded brown stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, lower right, black stamped ink. "LJR" verso, lower right, black stamped ink.

Wikidata ID

Q65077517

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