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Duvet Studying the Apocalypse
Jean DuvetLinkedCulture matchlcp-96a2c9fab418
- Date
- 1555
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 4389
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Jean Duvet portrayed himself as John the Evangelist in this frontispiece to the Apocalypse . He holds an engraver’s burin and has inscribed his name on the arched, copperplate-like tablet at his left: “Jean Duvet, goldsmith of Langres, aged seventy, has completed these histories in 1555.” Duvet’s attribute is not the eagle, but rather a menacing swan. Swimming toward him with an arrow in his beak, the bird and the ship of the three Fates above it bear ill tidings: “Death is upon me and my hands tremble, my sight fails, yet the spirit remains victorious and I have completed my great work.”
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- Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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