The Angel Sounding the Sixth Trumpet

1546/1556

Jean Duvet

Artist, French, 1485 - c. 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.1 × 21 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet (irreg.): 30.6 × 22.8 cm (12 1/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.283

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eisler 1979, no. 47, State only

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

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

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 upper center. "HIST / CAP 9 / APOC" recto, on plate, on plaque at upper center. "PO 95, A.O.H. 35 - 9" verso, lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

"National Gallery of Art" verso, lower left center, stamped black ink. "LJR" verso, lower left center, stamped black ink.

Wikidata ID

Q65077508

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