The Woman Clothed with the Sun
1546/1556
Artist, French, 1485 - c. 1570

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 30.2 × 21 cm (11 7/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1954.12.247
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Catalogue Raisonné
Eisler 1979, no. 50, State ii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1954; gift to NGA, 1954.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 72.
The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 28.
2009
The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480 - 1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Mary adn Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009 - 2010, cat. by Emily J. Peters.
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. "HEC / HISTORIA / APOCALIPSIS / CAP 15" recto, on plate, on plaque at center left. "27840" verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
"National Gallery of Art" verso, center left, black stamped ink. "Museum of Fine Arts Boston 27840, Duplicate Sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" verso, lower center, brown stamped ink.
Wikidata ID
Q65359673