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Workshop of Jean Poyet (c1445-1515)

Lot 35
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 10 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 35 | Workshop of Jean Poyet (c1445-1515)
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
Workshop of Jean Poyet (c.1445-1515)

Raising of Lazarus, Tours, c.1500-1515

RAISING OF LAZARUS, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Poyet [Tours, 1500-1515].



An expressive and engrossing scene from a richly illuminated Book of Hours by the workshop of one of the greatest illuminators of the turn of the 16th century, Jean Poyet of Tours.



157 x 107mm. Full-page miniature depicting Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, still seated on the edge of his grave wrapped in a shroud (John 11:44), opening the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, verso with 18 lines of text, ruled space: 91 x 56mm, illuminated initials and line-fillers, panel border of flowers and acanthus leaves with a bird on a parti-coloured liquid gold ground (somewhat rubbed, marks of old mounting at edges, long horizontal crease along the bottom half of the miniature). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 5 July 2005, lot 20.



Illumination: The composition of the present miniatures is very close to that in a Book of Hours at Harvard (Houghton Library MS Typ 614: see M. Hofmann, Beyond Words. Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, exh. cat., 2016, no 111, pp.123-4). Like the Houghton Hours, it is by the workshop of Jean Poyet of Tours (fl. c.1485-1503), a painter who rivalled Jean Bourdichon for royal and courtly patronage during the reigns of Louis XI (1461-83), Charles VIII (1483-98) and Louis XII (1498-1515). Characteristic of his style are the slender figures with finely modelled heads; the elaborate Renaissance illusionistic architectural frames and backdrops; a keen sensitivity for depth, with figures receding into the background; and a subtle palette of pinks and blues heightened with fine wisps of gold (see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France, 1440-1520, 1993, pp.306-18; R.S. Wieck, W.M. Voelkle and K.M. Hearne, The Hours of Henry VIII, A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet, 2000; and M. Hofmann, Jean Poyer: Das Gesamtwerk, 2004).

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