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The Circumcision, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours [Paris, c.1490s]
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Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse (active 1493-1508)
The Circumcision, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours [Paris, c.1490s]
A charming example of the most delicate, subtle and assured work of the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse.
142 x 94mm. The text opening None in the Hours of the Virgin, reverse with 14 lines of text, 2 illuminated initisls and a one-sided border inhabited by a grotesque (outer margin repaired with tape, not affecting miniature or text, else in excellent condition). Window mount. Provenance: Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, 27 September 2008, lot 1080.
All that is known of the career of this artist is deduced from the body of work attributed to him on the basis of stylistic unity. His collaborators, his decorative vocabulary, the diversity of his princely patrons and his illustrations for luxury books produced for the publisher Antoine Vérard indicate that the Master was active in Paris between c.1490 and 1510. His stylistic identity had been isolated earlier but various names he was given were superseded by the soubriquet based on his most impressive autograph work, the Chronique Scandaleuse of Jean de Roye, completed in 1502 for a member of the Dammartin family (Paris, BnF, Clair.481: F. Avril & N. Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, 1993, pp.274-7 & 369).
His work is found in many Books of Hours, the most spectacular among them the Hours of Adrien Gouffier (R. Wieck, The Wormsley Library, 1999, no 19).
The Circumcision, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours [Paris, c.1490s]
A charming example of the most delicate, subtle and assured work of the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse.
142 x 94mm. The text opening None in the Hours of the Virgin, reverse with 14 lines of text, 2 illuminated initisls and a one-sided border inhabited by a grotesque (outer margin repaired with tape, not affecting miniature or text, else in excellent condition). Window mount. Provenance: Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, 27 September 2008, lot 1080.
All that is known of the career of this artist is deduced from the body of work attributed to him on the basis of stylistic unity. His collaborators, his decorative vocabulary, the diversity of his princely patrons and his illustrations for luxury books produced for the publisher Antoine Vérard indicate that the Master was active in Paris between c.1490 and 1510. His stylistic identity had been isolated earlier but various names he was given were superseded by the soubriquet based on his most impressive autograph work, the Chronique Scandaleuse of Jean de Roye, completed in 1502 for a member of the Dammartin family (Paris, BnF, Clair.481: F. Avril & N. Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, 1993, pp.274-7 & 369).
His work is found in many Books of Hours, the most spectacular among them the Hours of Adrien Gouffier (R. Wieck, The Wormsley Library, 1999, no 19).
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