The Last Judgment: the graves open and the dead emerge. Line engraving by P. de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.

  • Cousin, Jehan, approximately 1522-approximately 1593.
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[between 1726 and 1738]
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46789i
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The Last Judgment: the graves open and the dead emerge. Line engraving by P. de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A detail of a large painting by Jean Cousin the younger in the Musée du Louvre. The risen dead are escorted by angels or skeletons

"Le grand Jugement universel de Jean Cousin, dont le tableau est chez les Minimes du parc de Vincennes, gravé par Pierre de Jode le vieux, en 1615, à Anvers, pour un Flamand (Guil. Wittenbroot evulgavit Antuerpiae, 1615), qui en a fait la dédicace à Louis XIV, en six grandes planches qui ne font qu'un seul morceau. Le dessein y est très-bon mais elle est gravée un peu sèchement. Les planches venues en France passèrent entre les mains de Le Blond, à qui elles furent achetées par Drevet, qui les a retouché pour les rendre plus brillantes par le noir et d'un meilleur débit. L'on voit dans un des coins d'en bas, au pied d'un ange, le buste de Jean Cousin."--Abecedario de P.J. Mariette, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

Paris (aux Galleries) : chez P. Drevet, [between 1726 and 1738]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 48.2 x 40.3 cm

Lettering

Joannes Cousin senoniensis invenit et pinxit. Petrus de Iode in aes incidit

Reference

Wellcome Collection 46789i

References note

Ph. de Chennevières and A. de Montaiglon, Abecedario de P.J. Mariette: et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes, Paris 1853-1862, tome 3, p. 8
'The Last Judgment in twelve plates', Graphic arts collection, Special collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University, October 17, 2017 [blog post], accessed online at https://graphicarts.princeton.edu

Creator/production credits

Engraved in Antwerp by Pieter de Jode and published there in 1615; subsequently retouched by Pierre Drevet and published by him in Paris

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in “Death is not the End” at The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA, 17 March 2023 - 14 January 2024

Notes

One of nine engravings which in aggregate publish the entire composition of the painting by Jean Cousin, in the same direction, engraved on three rows of three plates each, and described in a separate plate as a "Pourtraict du Jugement Universel, confirmé des tesmoignages de l'Escripture Saincte". This engraving is the lower left plate of the composition

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