The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis (c. 1470): Artwork and History

The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis (c. 1470) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Maître François French, active 1450-1499.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis
• Date: c. 1470
• Artist attribution: Maître François French, active 1450-1499
• Place of origin: France
• 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.)
• Type: Drawing and Watercolor
• Department: Prints and Drawings
• Reference number: 1957.162

Collection credit

Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund

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