Master of the Rouen Échevinage (active 1460-85)

Lot 23
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 23 | Master of the Rouen Échevinage (active 1460-85)
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£ 6 000 – 9 000
Master of the Rouen Échevinage (active 1460-85)

The Visitation, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours [Rouen, third quarter 15th century]

An entrancing miniature of the Visitation by one of the great Rouen illuminators of the 15th century, with a remarkable background perhaps depicting the medieval city of Rouen on the river Seine.



173 x 119mm., the miniature with the Visitation opening Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin, verso with 15 lines of text, ruled space: 92 x 60mm., illuminated line-fillers and initials, including one with marginal spray. Framed.



Provenance:

(1) From a Book of Hours for the use of Rouen, bought in Paris in the 1820s by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS.4397, dispersed in the 1950s by Messrs. W.H. Robinson. Another miniature with the Annunciation to the Shepherds belonged to Eric Korner (1893-1980) and was lot 33 in his sale at Sotheby's, 19 June 1990.

(2) Sotheby's, 6 December 2005, lot 22.



The illuminator is the Master of the Rouen Échevinage (also known as the Master of the Geneva Latini), named for the splendid manuscripts he painted for the Bibliothèque des Échevins in Rouen, the public library assembled by the aldermen of the city. The Master was the dominant illuminator in Rouen after the departure of the English in 1449, when the city became a flourishing centre of manuscript production: his career began c.1460 and continued into the 1480s. The 2005 Sotheby's catalogue compared it to the Master's work in the magnificent Hours of Saint-Lô, sold in the Ortiz-Patiño sale at Sotheby's New York, 21 April 1998, lot 37, for $3,300,000.





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