The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey

1546/1556

Jean Duvet

Artist, French, 1485 - c. 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.5 × 21.5 cm (11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3706

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eisler 1979, no. 58, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 40.

1959

  • Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.

Bibliography

1979

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

Inscriptions

"IOHA / NNES / DVVET / FAC" recto, on plate, on flag at upper left. "HIST / CAP 19 / APOC" recto, on plate, on plaque at upper center. "14296" verso, lower left, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q64958979

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