Jean Duvet was a French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver, now best known for his engravings. He was the first significant French printmaker.
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Detail of The Marriage of Adam and Eve, probably 1540/1555, engraving
The Unicorn Purifies the Water with Its Horn, probably c. 1555-1561
The Annunciation, 1520.
Henry II between France and Fame, c. 1548
Frontispiece to the Apocalypse series, 1555.
The Fall of Babylon, from the Apocalypse series, circa 1555, Engraving, Plate size: 11 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.Actors from France 6
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Jean Duvet was a French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver, now best known for his engravings. He was the first significant French printmaker. He produced about 73 known plates, that convey a highly personal style, often compared to that of William Blake, with very crowded compositions, a certain naive quality, and intense religious feeling. According to Henri Zerner, his work has a "freedom and immediacy that have no equivalent in Renaissance printmaking". A degree of mystery surrounds his biography, as there is disagreement as to whether or not he was the Jean Duvet from Dijon who spent sixteen years in the militantly Calvinist city-state of Geneva.
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