Art, literature & history
A King Pursued by the Unicorn
1540/50
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 22.8 × 39.2 cm (9 × 15 7/16 in.); Sheet: 23.8 × 39.5 cm (9 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.226
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Duvet. A King Pursued by the Unicorn. Jean Duvet; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
A King Pursued by the Unicorn — Jean Duvet. 1540/50.
Medium: Engraving on paper. Dimensions: Plate: 22.8 × 39.2 cm (9 × 15 7/16 in.); Sheet: 23.8 × 39.5 cm (9 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jean Duvet is the earliest identifiable French engraver. This visionary, very personal artist shows the influence of the Fontainebleau School, although he did not belong to it. His most important series of engravings develops a History of the Unicorn; the unicorn served as a symbol for Henry II and Diane de Poitiers.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.