The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis

Prints and Drawings

c. 1470

Maître François
French, active 1450-1499

In this powerful image, Christ elevates the chosen, assisted by angels, while demons drag the damned toward hell. Jean Chapuis’s 14th-century poem The Seven Articles of Faith explores the moral implications of Christ’s birth, baptism, death, descent into hell, resurrection, ascension, and second coming. Treated like a small panel painting rather than a decorated page, this image is characteristic of an accomplished illuminator called the Maitre François in its carefully rendered expressions and delicate use of minute stippling.

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Artist: Egregius Pictor Franciscus
Title: The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1465–1475
Medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, and letter bâtarde inscriptions in brownish-black ink, unruled, with decorated initial, on parchment
Dimensions: 23.7 × 17.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
Reference Number: 1957.162
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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.).

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.

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.

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