Art, literature & history
A Star Falls and Makes Hell to Open
1546/1556
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet ([irreg.] trimmed to plate mark): 30.5 × 21.7 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1947.7.42
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Duvet. A Star Falls and Makes Hell to Open. Jean Duvet; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Duvet,_A_Star_Falls_and_Makes_Hell_to_Open,_1546-1556,_NGA_33800.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Star Falls and Makes Hell to Open — Jean Duvet. 1546/1556.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet ([irreg.] trimmed to plate mark): 30.5 × 21.7 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1947.7.42. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.