Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)

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Lot 18 | Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)
Perrin Rémiet (fl.1386-1428)

?Hugh the Great presents his son, Paris, c.1400-10

?HUGH THE GREAT PRESENTS HIS SON, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].



Miniature: 78 x 92mm on a cutting: 382 x 270 mm in total, probably depicting Hugh the Great entrusting the guardianship of his son Hugh Capet to Richard of Normandy, the miniature above a five-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, two columns of text, 53 lines on verso (the leaf cut in two horizontally, central vertical crease and prickings evident where previously used as a wrapper, slit in upper half repaired with stitches slightly affecting text). Mounted. Provenance: Christie’s, 27 June 1979, lot 148 (part; along with lots 16, 19 and 22).

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