Jean Duvet
French, 1485-after 1561
Measurament of the Temple
INV-4399
Jean Duvet
French, 1485-after 1561n.d.
Measurament of the Temple
Jean Duvet French, 1485-after 1561 →engravingprint
Date
n.d.
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 30.8 × 22.4 cm (12 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 33.6 × 24.5 cm (13 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
In this vision from Revelation 11:1–13, a vibrant and industrious Saint John appears in small scale at the upper left. He holds a reed in his hand in order to measure the Temple of Jerusalem. The two larger figures recurring throughout the composition represent witnesses to events in the temple: they receive divine power issued by mouth from the figure of God the Father above the altar, they perish at the mercy of a beast from the abyss (at lower right), and are eventually resurrected (not pictured here).
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