ID 993288
Lot 29 | Workshop of Jean Pichore
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
David and Bathsheba, full-page miniature from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1515]
A lavishly illuminated miniature from what would have been a de luxe Book of Hours produced in the workshop of one of the greatest and most prolific illuminators of the early 16th century, Jean Pichore.
145 x 82 mm, a single leaf with a miniature depicting Bathsheba in the foreground, fully clothed but with her skirt pulled up to her knees and immersing her feet in a pool of water fed by a fountain, with two female attendants, and watched from the far side of a hedge by King David, resting his arms on the parapet of a Renaissance aedicule, likely opening the Seven Penitential Psalms in a Book of Hours (silver or white highlights in the water oxidised to black, some creasing and abrasion with loss of pigment). Mounted and framed.
Illumination:
The style of the miniature is attributable to the workshop of the enormously prolific Parisian illuminator and engraver Jean Pichore (fl. c.1490-1521), who dominated the production of Books of Hours in Paris in the first decades of the 16th century (see C. Zöhl, Jean Pichore: Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500, 2004).
| Artist: | Jean Pichore (XV century - XVI century) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Medieval & renaissance manuscripts |
| Artist: | Jean Pichore (XV century - XVI century) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Medieval & renaissance manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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