Anonymous southern Netherlandish artist
Anonymous southern Netherlandish artist
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Anonymous southern Netherlandish artist

Flight into Egypt, historiated initial 'C' cut from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, perhaps Bruges, c.1470]

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Anonymous southern Netherlandish artist
Flight into Egypt, historiated initial 'C' cut from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, perhaps Bruges, c.1470]
A tiny rendering of the Flight into Egypt in a historiated initial cut from a Book of Hours: the parent manuscript was illuminated in the southern Netherlands and displays the mastery of light, texture and space characteristic of Flemish manuscript painting on a minute scale.

40 x 41mm. The Flight into Egypt opening Compline in the Hours of the Virgin. Reverse with seven lines of text. Mounted. Provenance: Sotheby's, 20 June 1989, lot 9.
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