About This Artwork

Maître François
French, active 1450-1499

The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis, c. 1470

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, and letter bâtarde inscriptions in brownish-black ink, unruled, with decorated initial, on parchment
237 x 172 mm
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, 1957.162

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Burling Fine Arts Club, "Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts," 1909, p. 110, cat. 225, pl. 141.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Exhibition of French Art," 1932, cat. 621.

Paris, Palais National des Arts, "Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'Art Français," 1937, cat. 777.

Chicago, The Newberry Library, "French and Flemish Manuscripts from Chicago Collections," April 9-May 30, 1969, cat. 17.

Chicago, The University of Chicago, April 17-19, 1969.

Publication History

Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts (London, 1908), p. 110, n. 225.

A. de Laborde, Les manuscrits a peintures de 'la cité de Dieu,' I (1909), p. 401.

F. de Mély, Les primitifs et leurs Signatures, (Paris, 1913), p. 244, fig. 214.

Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1932), no. 621.

Royal Academy of Arts, Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900 (1933), no. 542.

Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art française (Paris, 1937), no. 777.

Paolo d'Ancona and Erhard Aeschlimann, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance dans les différentes contrées de l'Europe (Milan, 1949), p. 78.

The Chicago Tribune (April 14, 1957), p. 12.

Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart XII (Leipzig, 1961-1964), p. 368.

H. Kessler. The Newberry Library: French and Flemish Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago, 1969), cat. 17.

Christina M. Nielsen, "To Step into Another World: Building a Medieval Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 30:2 (2004), p. 16.

Laura K. Bruck, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Christina M. Nielsen, Martha Tedeschi, and Martha Wolff, “The Fifteenth Century,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 30:2 (2004), pp. 77-78, cat. 52.

Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Eight Centuries of Manuscript Illumination (2004), p. 37 (ill.).

Ownership History

Lord Stuart de Rothesay; sold, Sotheby's, London, May 1855, lot 2353. Sold, Sotheby's, London, February 1872, lot 508. Sold, Sotheby's, London, June 16, 1897, lot 550, to Robson; sold, Sotheby's, London, February 8, 1906, lot 247, to Sir Sydney Cockerell; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 1957, lot 15 to the Art Institute.