ID 470168
Lot 20 | Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 9 000
Louis VII returns to Paris from Aquitaine, Paris, c.1400-10
LOUIS VII RETURNS TO PARIS FROM AQUITAINE, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 75 x 90 mm on a cutting: 195 x 357 mm, depicting Louis VII ‘le Jeune’ returning to Paris from Aquitaine on horseback, the miniature above a five-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, two columns of text (central vertical crease and prickings evident where previously used as a wrapper, the miniature in very good condition). Framed. Provenance: Acquired from a Belgian private collection in 1999.
The same subject appears in Royal MS 16 G VI (f.312v) opening book 1 of the life of Louis VII.
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