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Robert Boyvin (active 1487-1536) or associate

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Лот 51 | Robert Boyvin (active 1487-1536) or associate
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£ 25 000 – 30 000
Robert Boyvin (active 1487-1536) or associate
Book of Hours, use of Rouen, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Rouen, c.1485-90]
An early work by the celebrated Rouen master Robert Boyvin, boasting an inventive iconographical programme incorporating Old Testament subject matter. Made for a female owner and once in the library of Harriet Pullman Carolan’s Gilded Age mansion, Carolands.

175 x 125mm. ii (paper) + 129 + iii (paper) leaves, complete, collation:112, 26, 37(of 8, i a cancelled blank), 4-98, 105(of 6, i a cancelled blank), 11-158, 166, 175(of 6, i a cancelled blank), modern pencil foliation, 16 lines, ruled space 104 x 65mm, one-line initials of burnished gold on blue and red grounds and two-line initials of blue and red on burnished gold grounds throughout, four-line foliate initials in blue, red and gold beneath large miniatures, every page with panel borders in the outer margin comprising compartments of acanthus, flowers, fruit, urns and occasional birds, 24 border miniatures in the Calendar showing the occupations of the month and the signs of the Zodiac, 14 large miniatures above bas-de-page border miniatures, four in architectural frames the remainder within acanthus borders of the earlier type (smudging to borders of St John, small slit in margin of f.14, loss to the silver robe of Bathsheba on f.79, occasional cockling). 17th-century dark brown morocco gilt binding, edges gilt, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed and cracked).

Provenance:
(1) The book was made in Rouen for the lady shown kneeling before the Virgin in the miniature opening the 15 Joys.

(2) Carolands Chateau, Hillsborough, California: ‘Library at Carolands’ bookplate inside upper cover. Built by Harriett Pullman Carolan (1869–1956), heiress to the Pullman Company fortune, the 98-room Carolands was one of the last of the Gilded Age mansions to be built and is now listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Content:
Calendar, in French ff.1-12 ; Gospel extracts ff.13-18; Obsecro te and O intemerata ff.18-25v; Hours of the Virgin, use of Rouen ff.26-71; Hours of the Cross ff.72-5; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.76v-78; Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany ff.79-94v; Office of the Dead, use of Rouen ff.95-124v; 15 Joys of the Virgin (Doulce dame), in French ff.125-129v.

Illumination:
The miniatures appear to be the early work of the illuminator Robert Boyvin, documented in Rouen from 1487 until 1536, or a close associate. From a family with longstanding connections to the book trade, he emerged from the shadow of his predecessor, the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen, to become the leading illuminator in the Norman city. Boyvin won the favour of Georges d’Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, for whom he completed a splendid copy of Seneca’s Epîtres in 1503 (Paris, BnF, lat.8551), and painted more than fifty manuscripts across his long and successful career, mostly Books of Hours such as these (see I. Delauney, 'Le manuscrit enluminé à Rouen au temps du cardinal Georges d'Amboise: l'oeuvre de Robert Boyvin et de Jean Serpin', Annales de Normandie, 3 (1995), pp.211-244). Boyvin's is a distinctive style, his characters almost always having rather long and triangular noses, the men with narrow chins and the women porcelain complexions. His drapery has angular contours and he relies heavily upon the use of gold cross-hatching to highlight and model. His landscape backgrounds are dotted with little shrubs and bushes. These Hours should be considered alongside the earliest manuscripts produced by Boyvin, identified by Delauney as painted c.1485-1495: the artist has not yet slimmed down his supporting casts of characters and marginalised architectural backgrounds in favour of allowing large, elongated figures to dominate much of the pictorial space.

Robert Boyvin apparently drew upon – and, indeed, contributed to – a rich and varied shared stock of patterns established by the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen and our manuscript benefits from a particularly inventive iconographical programme, in which each of the 14 large miniatures are complemented by bas-de-page border scenes, often depicting Old Testament events relating to the main subject. In this, these Hours are similar to another early Book of Hours painted by Boyvin, c.1485 (Christie’s, 13 June 2012, lot 11), as well as the splendid Hours, c.1500, from the Hauck collection (Christie’s New York, 27-28 June 2006, lot 125), in which the Old Testament border types become the subject of the large miniatures. Our border miniature of the Sacrifice of Isaac (f.61v; cf. f.59 in the 2012 Hours), resembles the full-page version in the Hauck Hours (f.49). Significantly, the rare scene of the miracle on Mount Carmel, with Elijah in a Carmelite habit, occurs in all three manuscripts.
A handful of the miniatures have architectural borders of golden prismatic piers and statues in canopies niches of the type adopted in Rouen from Bourges and employed by Boyvin in a number of his Books of Hours (cf. Cherbourg, Bibl. Mun. ms.5; New York, Morgan Library, MS Heineman 1 and M.261). The remainder of the miniatures are set within the more traditional panel borders of acanthus that appear in manuscripts painted by his predecessor, the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen.

The subjects of the large miniatures and their respective border miniatures are: John on Patmos – Matthew, Mark and Luke f.13; Annunciation – Mary weaving at a loom f.26; Visitation – Virgin journeying to her cousin's, with the opening words of the Magnificat on a scroll f.37; Nativity – Tiburtine Sibyl showing the vision of the Virgin and Child to the Emperor Augustus f.50; Annunciation to the shepherds – two further shepherds f.55v; Adoration of the Magi – Magi before Herod f.58v; Presentation in the Temple – Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac f.61v; Flight into Egypt – Massacre of the Innocents f.64v, Coronation of the Virgin – Assumption of the Virgin f.67v, Crucifixion – Flagellation f.72; Pentecost – Elijah, dressed as a Carmelite, performing the miraculous sacrifice on Mount Carmel f.76v; David in Prayer – Bathsheba bathing f.79; Job on the dungheap – burial scene before a church f.95; Virgin and Child flanked by female patron and angel – three musical angels f.125.
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