Jean Duvet
French, 1485-after 1561
Triumph of the Unicorn
INV-8627
Jean Duvet
French, 1485-after 15611540–50
Triumph of the Unicorn
Jean Duvet French, 1485-after 1561 →etchingprint
Date
1540–50
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
23.2 × 38.6 cm (9 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Jean Duvet depicted unicorns in several of his print series as representations of purity. Here the procession of the Triumph of the Unicorn symbolizes the victory of Christianity. God the father, presented as Jupiter, ushers the son, the unicorn, into paradise with the crown of heaven. Duvet densely engraved his prints; the varying degrees of ink tone in this impression imply that the printing plate was either unfinished or worked over a long period of time.
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