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The Arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor, miniature on paper from a chronicle of the Hundred Years' War [southern Netherlands, c.1485]
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The Bruges Master of 1482
The Arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor, miniature on paper from a chronicle of the Hundred Years' War [southern Netherlands, c.1485]
An exquisite secular miniature painted in strong, bright colours, by the Bruges Master of 1482, an artist who produced several commissions for the great bibliophile Louis de Gruuthuse.
110 x 163mm. The German Emperor on a white horse, preceded by a herald and followed by a crowd of retainers arrives at a city, reverse with 16 lines in two columns in a lettre bâtard in French, initial in red, the text based on but not identical with that of Froissart (cut to shape, remnants of mounting tape on reverse, small smudge to lower corner, else in excellent condition). Window mount. Provenance: Daniel Burckardt-Wildt (1752-1819), Basel silk merchant and collector: sale by his heirs, Sotheby’s, 25 April 1983, the present miniature f.43 in his album and lot 165 in the sale.
Thirteen miniatures are known from this manuscript, all of which were in the Burckhardt-Wildt sale (lots 153-65). Five of these are at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT (W.A. 1983.41-45); one in a private collection in Switzerland (ex Kraus cat.172, no 23 and Hindman, Fogg and Ferrini 1988, no 37); a further miniature with the King of England receiving a herald from the King of France belonged to Alan Thomas (his cat.47, 1985, no 3) and sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 2011, lot 17 for £12,500.
The miniature is the work of the Bruges Master of 1482: hallmarks of his style can be found in the confidently modelled faces with prominent noses and the crowded group composition. Attributed variously to the Bruges Master of 1482 (Sotheby's, 1983 and Hindman, Fogg and Ferrini, Medieval and Renaissance Miniature Painting, 1988, no 37), and the French Master of the Vienna Mamerot (Kraus, cat.172, no 23), the style and composition lend support to the former, Flemish attribution. The Master of 1482 is named after the frontispiece in a manuscript of the Propriétes des choses by Bartolomeus Anglicus, copied by Jean de Ries in Bruges in 1482 and commissioned for Edward IV (London, British Library, Royal MS.15 E II-III). The artist worked on numerous large-scale vernacular manuscripts (in particular hunting texts) and aristocratic commissions, including at least four manuscripts for Louis de Gruuthuse: a Livre de la chasse de Gaston Phébus, comte de Foix (Geneva, Ms. fr. 169); a Livre de l’art de chasser au moyen des oiseaux (Geneva, Ms. fr. 170); a Pénitence d'Adam (Paris, BnF, Fr.1837); and a Dialogue des créatures (offered at Sotheby's, 3 December 2002, lot 32). Other import commissions include an Ethiques d'Aristote (London, BL, Egerton 737); a Caesar, De bello Gallico (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 208); and a Compilation de récits de chevalerie (Yale, Beinecke Library, Ms. 230).
The Arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor, miniature on paper from a chronicle of the Hundred Years' War [southern Netherlands, c.1485]
An exquisite secular miniature painted in strong, bright colours, by the Bruges Master of 1482, an artist who produced several commissions for the great bibliophile Louis de Gruuthuse.
110 x 163mm. The German Emperor on a white horse, preceded by a herald and followed by a crowd of retainers arrives at a city, reverse with 16 lines in two columns in a lettre bâtard in French, initial in red, the text based on but not identical with that of Froissart (cut to shape, remnants of mounting tape on reverse, small smudge to lower corner, else in excellent condition). Window mount. Provenance: Daniel Burckardt-Wildt (1752-1819), Basel silk merchant and collector: sale by his heirs, Sotheby’s, 25 April 1983, the present miniature f.43 in his album and lot 165 in the sale.
Thirteen miniatures are known from this manuscript, all of which were in the Burckhardt-Wildt sale (lots 153-65). Five of these are at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT (W.A. 1983.41-45); one in a private collection in Switzerland (ex Kraus cat.172, no 23 and Hindman, Fogg and Ferrini 1988, no 37); a further miniature with the King of England receiving a herald from the King of France belonged to Alan Thomas (his cat.47, 1985, no 3) and sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 2011, lot 17 for £12,500.
The miniature is the work of the Bruges Master of 1482: hallmarks of his style can be found in the confidently modelled faces with prominent noses and the crowded group composition. Attributed variously to the Bruges Master of 1482 (Sotheby's, 1983 and Hindman, Fogg and Ferrini, Medieval and Renaissance Miniature Painting, 1988, no 37), and the French Master of the Vienna Mamerot (Kraus, cat.172, no 23), the style and composition lend support to the former, Flemish attribution. The Master of 1482 is named after the frontispiece in a manuscript of the Propriétes des choses by Bartolomeus Anglicus, copied by Jean de Ries in Bruges in 1482 and commissioned for Edward IV (London, British Library, Royal MS.15 E II-III). The artist worked on numerous large-scale vernacular manuscripts (in particular hunting texts) and aristocratic commissions, including at least four manuscripts for Louis de Gruuthuse: a Livre de la chasse de Gaston Phébus, comte de Foix (Geneva, Ms. fr. 169); a Livre de l’art de chasser au moyen des oiseaux (Geneva, Ms. fr. 170); a Pénitence d'Adam (Paris, BnF, Fr.1837); and a Dialogue des créatures (offered at Sotheby's, 3 December 2002, lot 32). Other import commissions include an Ethiques d'Aristote (London, BL, Egerton 737); a Caesar, De bello Gallico (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 208); and a Compilation de récits de chevalerie (Yale, Beinecke Library, Ms. 230).
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