Workshop of Willem Vrelant

Lot 9
13.07.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 9 | Workshop of Willem Vrelant
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Workshop of Willem Vrelant

All Saints, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bruges, c.1460]

An appealing miniature from a rich Book of Hours illuminated by an associate of Willem Vrelant.



133 x 96mm. The miniature opening a prayer to All Saints: 'Sancti dei omnes in/tercedite', verso with 16 lines of text in a French batarde and one illuminated initial, ruled space: 73 x 48mm (large initial on recto a little rubbed, minor losses of pigment to the sky). In a card window-mount. Provenance: Bonhams New York, 25 June - 8 July 2020, lot 24. A number of miniature leaves from the parent manuscript have appeared on the market: according to Abebooks, there are 4 leaves (with St Anthony, the Raising of Lazarus, St Desiderius, and St James) with Sanderus Antiquariat in Ghent, and a further leaf (St Erasmus) with Antiquariaat Meuzelaar in the Netherlands.



The style of the miniature suggests that the parent manuscript was painted in Bruges, the centre of the export trade to England in 15th-century Flanders, and emanated from the workshop of Willem Vrelant – who had settled in Bruges by 1454 and rapidly attained commercial success as well, as the patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy – or one of his followers. Vrelant and his workshop specialised in small Books of Hours such as this one; his widely-emulated style can be best identified here in the strong palette, setting blue against yellow, orange and red, and emphatic black lines to detail and outline.

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