Jean Duvet as Saint John the Evangelist
1555
Artist, French, 1485 - c. 1570
Jean Duvet
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.6 × 21 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1946.21.280
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Catalogue Raisonné
Eisler 1979, no. 65, State ii/ii
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
1947
The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1968
L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 137, repro.
1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
Bibliography
1979
Eisler, Colin. The Master of the Unicorn: The Life and Work of Jean Duvet. New York: Abaris Books,1979.
Inscriptions
"IOH / DVVET / AURIF AB / LINGON / ANOR 70 / HAS / HIST / PER FECIT" recto, on plate, on tablet at center left. "LIB / APOC / BEAT / IOH / APO" recto, on plate, on right page of book at center left. "FATA PREMUT / TREPIDANT QS / MANVS IAM / LUMINA FALLUNT / MENS RESTAT / VICTRIX GRA / DEQ SVADET / OPVS" recto, on plate, in lake at center right. "SACRA IN HACC ET ALLIS SEQUETIBUS / TABELLIS CONTENTA MISTERIA EX / DIVINA IOHANNIS APOCALIPSI DESUPTA / SUNT AC VERAE LITERAE TEXTVS / PROXIME ACCOMODATE ADHIBITO / ETIAM VIRORUM PERITIORVM IVDICIO" recto, on plate, on plaque at lower left.
Markings
"National Gallery of Art, LJR" verso, lower left margin, black stamped ink. Illegible mark verso, lower left margin, faded red ink.
Wikidata ID
Q65077466