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CORONATION OF LOUIS VI, PARIS, C.1400-10
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Perrin Rémiet (fl.1386-1428)
Coronation of Louis VI, Paris, c.1400-10
CORONATION OF LOUIS VI, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 76 x 88mm on a cutting 140 x 122mm, depicting the coronation of Louis VI at Laon on 9 June 936, the seated king crowned by Archbishop Artold and given the sceptre by another bishop, the miniature above a five-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, 9 lines of text in a column, 23 lines of text on verso (the miniature in notably good condition). 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 21 and 23).
The same subject appears in Royal MS 16 G VI on f.284r opening book 1 of the Life of Louis VI.
Coronation of Louis VI, Paris, c.1400-10
CORONATION OF LOUIS VI, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 76 x 88mm on a cutting 140 x 122mm, depicting the coronation of Louis VI at Laon on 9 June 936, the seated king crowned by Archbishop Artold and given the sceptre by another bishop, the miniature above a five-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, 9 lines of text in a column, 23 lines of text on verso (the miniature in notably good condition). 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 21 and 23).
The same subject appears in Royal MS 16 G VI on f.284r opening book 1 of the Life of Louis VI.
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