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Jean Duvet

Duvet Studying the Apocalypse

1555
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
29.6 × 21 cm (11.7 × 8.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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