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The Annunciation to the Shepherds, miniature cut from a Book of Hours [Rouen, c.1470s]
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Master of the Rouen Échevinage and workshop
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, miniature cut from a Book of Hours [Rouen, c.1470s]
A crisp and charming example of the style of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage, from the famous Burckhardt-Wildt album.
92 x 64mm. The arch-topped miniature opening Terce in the Hours of the Virgin, reverse with 11 lines of text and 4 illuminated initials (some smudging to the face of the angel and the banderole, reverse with remnants of adhesive, else in excellent condition). Mounted. Provenance: Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1752-1819), Basel silk manufacturer, artist, and co-founder of the Basler Künstlergeschellschaft; this cutting was f.26 in the album of some 475 illuminated cuttings assembled for him by Birman in France, at a cost of 444 livres tournois; the album was bequeathed to his descendants and remained their property until dismembered for sale at Sotheby's 25 April 1983, when the present cutting was lot 169b.
The miniature shows all the characteristics of the finest work of the Master of the Geneva Latini, also known as the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen from his work in manuscripts made for the public library assembled by the aldermen of Rouen. It is particularly close to the work of the artist and his workshop in the Hours of Chrétienne de France (Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, ms.562), which Avril and Reynaud describe as a representative example of the vast and stylistically consistent output of the Master's workshop in Rouen from the 1460s onwards (see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, 1993, p.172, no 91).
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, miniature cut from a Book of Hours [Rouen, c.1470s]
A crisp and charming example of the style of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage, from the famous Burckhardt-Wildt album.
92 x 64mm. The arch-topped miniature opening Terce in the Hours of the Virgin, reverse with 11 lines of text and 4 illuminated initials (some smudging to the face of the angel and the banderole, reverse with remnants of adhesive, else in excellent condition). Mounted. Provenance: Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1752-1819), Basel silk manufacturer, artist, and co-founder of the Basler Künstlergeschellschaft; this cutting was f.26 in the album of some 475 illuminated cuttings assembled for him by Birman in France, at a cost of 444 livres tournois; the album was bequeathed to his descendants and remained their property until dismembered for sale at Sotheby's 25 April 1983, when the present cutting was lot 169b.
The miniature shows all the characteristics of the finest work of the Master of the Geneva Latini, also known as the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen from his work in manuscripts made for the public library assembled by the aldermen of Rouen. It is particularly close to the work of the artist and his workshop in the Hours of Chrétienne de France (Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, ms.562), which Avril and Reynaud describe as a representative example of the vast and stylistically consistent output of the Master's workshop in Rouen from the 1460s onwards (see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, 1993, p.172, no 91).
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