ID 470170
Lot 22 | Perrin Rémiet (fl1386-1428)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 9 000
The coronation of John II, Paris, c.1400-10
THE CORONATION OF JOHN II, miniature cut from a Grandes chroniques de France, manuscript on vellum illuminated by Perrin Rémiet [Paris, c.1400-1410].
Miniature: 84 x 84mm on a cutting: 192mm x 266mm, depicting the coronation of John II ‘the Good’ of France, shown beside his second wife Joan, on 26 September 1350, the miniature above a six-line illuminated initial with extended border flourishing, two columns of text, 27 lines on verso (central vertical crease, prickings and remains of string where previously used as a wrapper, small losses at both bottom corners). Mounted. Provenance: Christie’s, 27 June 1979, lot 148 (part; along with lots 16, 18 and 19).
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