Master of the Troyes Missal Leaf from a book... - Lot 2 - Giquello

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Master of the Troyes Missal Leaf from a book... - Lot 2 - Giquello
Master of the Troyes Missal Leaf from a book of hours, beginning of the Hours of the Cross (matins), brown ink, gouache and burnished gold on parchment. Crucifixion, arched miniature surrounded by illuminated borders with coloured acanthus decoration, vine leaves and golden besants, floral motifs and birds on a reserved background. France, Troyes, ca. 1460. Leaf size: 143 x 187 mm (text on the back, continuation of the Hours of the Cross for matins). Some rubbing to the nimbus and burnished gold in the dominate background. This leaf is taken from the same book of hours as the Saint John on the Isle of Patmos (see previous issue) and also attributable to the Master of the Troyes Missal. This crucifixion bears obvious similarities to the one illustrating the Canon of the Mass in a Missal for the use of Troyes (Paris, BnF, Latin 865A) with figures clearly painted by the same artist. The manuscript Paris latin 856A was copied by Jean Coquet, canon of Saint-Quentin de Beauvais, and the miniatures betray a certain degree of archaism: "It is indeed under the obvious ascendancy of the style of the late continuators of the Master of Bedford, a style which persisted in Paris until the middle of the century and even beyond, that the painter of Lat. 856A, but this style is interpreted here with a more powerful accent, a fuller treatment of the human figure, and is felt in the monumental plasticity that became dominant in painting from the third quarter of the century onwards... The pictorial execution of the illustrations and borders makes this missal appear to be one of the artist's most meticulous works" (Avril, in Avril et Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures 1440-1520, Paris, 1993, notice no. 97, pp. 182-183, reproduction of the Crucifixion p. 183). The borders of the present folio are very close to those of the Troyes Missal, with the same decoration and birds in the margins, allowing us to advance a date of circa 1460 for these two fragments (lot 1 and 2).
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