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BATTLE OF POITIERS, PARIS, C.1400-10
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Perrin Rémiet (fl.1386-1428)
Battle of Poitiers, Paris, c.1400-10
THE BATTLE OF POITIERS, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 78 x 83mm on a cutting: 192 x 269mm, depicting John II ‘the Good’ of France at the head of his army confronting the English longbowmen under the Black Prince on 19 September 1356, the miniature above a four-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, 11lines of text in a single column, c.24 lines on verso (the upper half of a leaf, now folded over, central vertical crease and prickings evident where previously used as a wrapper, the gold ground rubbed). Mounted. Provenance: (1) Sir John Galvin (b. 1902), Australian-American businessman who acquired Loughlinstown House, Dublin in 1963. (2) Sotheby’s, 7 July 2008, lot 3 (part; along with lots 17 and 21).
Battle of Poitiers, Paris, c.1400-10
THE BATTLE OF POITIERS, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 78 x 83mm on a cutting: 192 x 269mm, depicting John II ‘the Good’ of France at the head of his army confronting the English longbowmen under the Black Prince on 19 September 1356, the miniature above a four-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, 11lines of text in a single column, c.24 lines on verso (the upper half of a leaf, now folded over, central vertical crease and prickings evident where previously used as a wrapper, the gold ground rubbed). Mounted. Provenance: (1) Sir John Galvin (b. 1902), Australian-American businessman who acquired Loughlinstown House, Dublin in 1963. (2) Sotheby’s, 7 July 2008, lot 3 (part; along with lots 17 and 21).
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