Master of Dreux Budé (André d’Ypres)

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Lot 40 | Master of Dreux Budé (André d’Ypres)
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Master of Dreux Budé (André d’Ypres)

Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1450]

A charming Book of Hours with an unusual death-bed scene, illuminated by one of the key figures of 15th-century Parisian illumination.



170 x 120mm. ii (paper) + 165 +ii (paper), collation: 112, 28, 35(of 6, i a cancelled blank), 47(of 8, lacking i), 58, 67(of 8, lacking viii), 710(of 12, lacking i and xii), 8-148, 154, 16-218, 15 lines, ruled space: 88 x 58mm, rubrics in red, capitals touched in yellow, line-fillers and small illuminated initials throughout, each page with a panel border, ten large miniatures in arched compartments within full borders, erased inscriptions on ff.1, 73, 110, 117v and 165v (lacking 4 leaves, likely with miniatures, small spots of retouching to the first miniature and to the faces on ff.84 and one face on f.67v, some marginal staining, a few smudges and losses to the burnished gold, occasional marginal cropping). 18th-century calf gilt. Fitted brown box.



Provenance:

(1) Charles Antoine Poulletier (1725-1797), royal councilor and 'Gendarme de la Garde Ordinaire du Roy' in Compiègne: his armorial bookplate. A number of erased inscriptions appear on ff.1, 73, 110, 117v and 165v - they are barely legible, but one seems to suggest they are written in an 18th-century French hand 'Li[vre] [...] du Mo[nsieur] [...]'.

(2) Sotheby's, 23 January 1922, lot 289, to P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

(3) Sotheby's, 6 July 2000, lot 80.



Content: Calendar ff.1-12v; Gospel extracts ff.13-18; Obsecro te and O intemerata ff.18v-25v; Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris, ff.26-89: matins f.25, lauds f.48, prime f.58, terce f.63v, sext f.68, none f.72v, vespers f.77, compline f.84; Penitential Psalms and Litany ff.90-109; Hours of the Cross ff.109v-113; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.113v-116v; Office of the Dead ff.118-165.



Illumination:

The illumination has been attributed to the Master of Dreux Budé. A key figure in 15th-century Parisian painting, the Master was named from a dismembered Passion Triptych executed for Dreux Budé, a lawyer who rose high in the service of Charles VII. His evident debt to Netherlandish painting and his close stylistic relationship with the Coëtivy Master encouraged Reynaud to identify him with André d’Ypres, master in Tournai in 1428 who moved from Amiens to Paris in or after 1443 (see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1449-1520, 1993, p.56); the Coëtivy Master was identified with André’s son, Colin d’Amiens, who also settled in Paris. The subsequent discovery that André d’Ypres died in July 1450 in Mons after returning from a pilgrimage to Rome is consonant with the Master’s evident connection with van der Weyden, also in Rome that year, but has entailed a re-evaluation of an oeuvre usually considered to extend well into the 1450s (D. Vanwijnsberghe, ‘Du nouveau sur le peintre André d’Ypres, artiste du Nord installé à Paris’, Bulletin monumental, 158 (2000), pp.365-369; D. Thiébaut et al., Primitifs francais découvertes et redécouvertes, 2004, pp.92-101).



The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: St John on Patmos f.13; The Annunciation to the Shepherds f.63v; The Adoration of the Magi f.68; The Presentation in the Temple f.72v; The Flight into Egypt f.77v; The Coronation of the Virgin f.84; David in Prayer f.90; The Crucifixion f.109v; Pentecost f.113v; A death-bed scene f.118.





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