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ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chest...

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ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chest...

Schätzpreis
30.000 £ - 50.000 £
ca. 46.669 $ - 77.782 $
Zuschlagspreis:
43.750 £
ca. 68.059 $
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ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same manuscript, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM , Paris, 1408.
ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same manuscript, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM , Paris, 1408. 174 x 130mm. St Martin on horseback slices his cloak asunder to give half to a beggar, within a bar and full border, with a similar border on the verso; text leaf, from the Seven Penitential Psalms, with 15 lines within full borders (some water damage to border, not affecting miniature or text). Provenance: (1) the present leaves were ff.70 and 165 in the famous Chester Beatty Book of Hours, one of the few securely dated Books of Hours, written in 1408, the year the bridges were washed away in Paris (f.158 with its colophon: Factum est anno mo ccco viijo quo ceciderunt pontes parisius was sold in these rooms, The Arcana Collection , Part I, 7 July 2010, lot 22; a similar inscription appears in Bodleian MS. Douce 144). Its original patron apparently had Breton connections (the litany of the intact manuscript included two Breton bishops). (2) Its documented history begins with lot 47 in the sale of JOHN BOYKETT JARMAN (d.1864), Sotheby's, 13 June 1864 – Jarman's collection had been damaged by flooding in 1846. (3) Lot 240 in the sale of EDWARD ARNOLD , Sotheby's, 6 May, 1929. (4) W Ms 103 in the library of SIR ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY (1875-1968), who had most of the miniatures, including St Martin and the Beggar, separately mounted. Some were dispersed during his lifetime but the present miniature remained in the collection and was sold as lot 58K in the Chester Beatty Sale, Sotheby's 24 June, 1969. Miniatures from the Chester Beatty Hours are now in various private and public collections. A ravishing miniature by the Mazarine Master, one of the founding figures of Parisian manuscript illumination. Active in Paris during the first two decades of the 15th century, he has been defined by Gabrielle Bartz as a distinct personality responsible for some of the most striking works previously attributed to the Boucicaut Master, among them the Book of Hours in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms 469, from which he takes his name (see E. Taburet-Delahaye and F. Avril, Paris 1400 , 2004, pp.280-87). The two masters had a decisive influence on French illumination at one of its most resplendent periods, particularly through their interest in depicting three-dimensional space, and worked for the greatest collectors of the age, like the Duc de Berry. Stylistically close to the Boucicaut Master, the Mazarine Master is distinguished by his greater liking for pattern, seen in the variety of his gilded backgrounds, by his softer modelling of draperies and by his more elegant, graceful figures.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 10
Auktion:
Datum:
15.07.2015
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
15 July 2015, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same manuscript, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM , Paris, 1408.
ST MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, miniature on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same manuscript, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM , Paris, 1408. 174 x 130mm. St Martin on horseback slices his cloak asunder to give half to a beggar, within a bar and full border, with a similar border on the verso; text leaf, from the Seven Penitential Psalms, with 15 lines within full borders (some water damage to border, not affecting miniature or text). Provenance: (1) the present leaves were ff.70 and 165 in the famous Chester Beatty Book of Hours, one of the few securely dated Books of Hours, written in 1408, the year the bridges were washed away in Paris (f.158 with its colophon: Factum est anno mo ccco viijo quo ceciderunt pontes parisius was sold in these rooms, The Arcana Collection , Part I, 7 July 2010, lot 22; a similar inscription appears in Bodleian MS. Douce 144). Its original patron apparently had Breton connections (the litany of the intact manuscript included two Breton bishops). (2) Its documented history begins with lot 47 in the sale of JOHN BOYKETT JARMAN (d.1864), Sotheby's, 13 June 1864 – Jarman's collection had been damaged by flooding in 1846. (3) Lot 240 in the sale of EDWARD ARNOLD , Sotheby's, 6 May, 1929. (4) W Ms 103 in the library of SIR ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY (1875-1968), who had most of the miniatures, including St Martin and the Beggar, separately mounted. Some were dispersed during his lifetime but the present miniature remained in the collection and was sold as lot 58K in the Chester Beatty Sale, Sotheby's 24 June, 1969. Miniatures from the Chester Beatty Hours are now in various private and public collections. A ravishing miniature by the Mazarine Master, one of the founding figures of Parisian manuscript illumination. Active in Paris during the first two decades of the 15th century, he has been defined by Gabrielle Bartz as a distinct personality responsible for some of the most striking works previously attributed to the Boucicaut Master, among them the Book of Hours in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms 469, from which he takes his name (see E. Taburet-Delahaye and F. Avril, Paris 1400 , 2004, pp.280-87). The two masters had a decisive influence on French illumination at one of its most resplendent periods, particularly through their interest in depicting three-dimensional space, and worked for the greatest collectors of the age, like the Duc de Berry. Stylistically close to the Boucicaut Master, the Mazarine Master is distinguished by his greater liking for pattern, seen in the variety of his gilded backgrounds, by his softer modelling of draperies and by his more elegant, graceful figures.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 10
Auktion:
Datum:
15.07.2015
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
15 July 2015, London, King Street
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