Saint John Sees the Seven Golden Candlesticks

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: 30.5 × 21.2 cm (12 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet (irreg.): 35 × 24.5 cm (13 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
    mount: 45 × 32 cm (17 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.281

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eisler 1979, no. 40, 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

1962

  • The Saints in Prints & Illuminations from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1962-1963, no. 44.

1973

  • The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 25.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

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 left. "HISTORIA / I CAPIT / APOCAL" recto, on plate, on plaque at lower left. "St. Jean voir 7 chandeliers d'Or" recto mount, lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "94" recto mount, lower right margin, black ink, unknown hand. Star, recto mount, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Co" recto mount, upper left margin, graphite, unknown hand. [Illeg] recto mount, upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. [Illeg] recto mount, lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q65077501

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