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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion

1430s
(Flemish)
Flanders, Ghent?, 15th century
ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Leaf: 14.1 x 10.1 cm (5 9/16 x 4 in.)
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.58
Location: not on view

Description

The Master of Guillebert de Mets is named after the scribe who records his name in an illuminated copy of the Decameron, made for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, and for which he contributed many of its miniatures. He was active from about 1410 to 1445. So far there is no proof that allows us to follow his career or to know precisely where he worked. Calendars in other manuscripts with which he is associated suggest his shop may have been in Tournai, Liège, Bruges, and more credibly, Ghent. His commissions may have been linked to the itinerant Burgundian court, though no original provenance survives for any of his manuscripts. The Master of Guillebert de Mets painted in an easily recognizable style. His figures have prominent heads with well-delineated eyes and small mouths, slender torsos with thin, spindly legs, and long, finely worked fingers. Many of his miniatures, such as The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment here, show that he often favored mosaic backgrounds of delicately worked checkered patterns.
  • [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
  • Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 45, cat. no. 41 archive.org
    Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique, et.al. "A l'Escu de France": Guillebert de Mets et la peinture de livres à Gand à l'époque de Jan van Eyck (1410-1450). Bruxelles : Institut royal du patrimoine artistique, 2017. Reproduced: p. 450, fig. 1975 (v. 1); Mention: p. 161 (v.2)
  • The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014).
    Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014.
    The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
    CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 41, illus. p. 45.
  • {{cite web|title=Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion|url=false|author=Master of Guillebert de Mets, Workshop|year=1430s|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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