Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)

Lot 21
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 6 000
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Lot 21 | Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)
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£ 6 000 – 9 000
Perrin Rémiet (fl.1386-1428)

Edward I paying homage to Philip the Fair, Paris, c.1400-10

EDWARD I PAYING HOMAGE TO PHILIP THE FAIR, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].



Miniature: 82 x 90mm on a cutting: 194 x 132mm, depicting a kneeling King Edward I of England paying homage to an enthroned Philip IV of France in 1299, the miniature above a seven-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, 14 lines of text in a single column, 29 lines on verso (the miniature a little smudged). 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 17 and 23).

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