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Auction archive: Lot number 2

CRUCIFIXION, miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL ON VELLUM.

Auction 25.06.1997
25 Jun 1997
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,933 - US$8,221
Price realised:
£10,925
ca. US$17,965
Auction archive: Lot number 2

CRUCIFIXION, miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL ON VELLUM.

Auction 25.06.1997
25 Jun 1997
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,933 - US$8,221
Price realised:
£10,925
ca. US$17,965
Beschreibung:

CRUCIFIXION, miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL ON VELLUM. [France, probably Paris, early 14th century] Miniature: 206 x 135mm; leaf: 272 x 180mm. Christ on the cross, flanked by Mary and John. The emaciated corpus is clothed in a white loincloth. Mary and John are dressed identically in orange robes, with mantles of white lined in blue, and each carries a book in the left hand. The cross rises from a bare brown mount, and at the top of the picture two whirlwinds emerge from white and blue clouds. The three haloes, the two books, and the two whirlwinds are of liquid gold. The entire scene is placed against a tesselated background in two shades of dark gray, each square of which contains a quatrefoil. The border, of burnished gold and pink with white tracery, has a liquid gold medallion in each corner, and is surrounded by burnished gold ivy leaves on black hairline stems, with a small burnished gold cross on a blue ground in the lower margin. (Creased and cockled; some abrasion of colours and gold; a few small stains and wormholes in margins; not examined out of frame.) Framed and glazed. The miniature is in the style of Mâitre Honoré and is possibly to be attributed to one of his followers (cf. the similar composition reproduced in François Avril, Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: The Fourteenth Century , New York, 1978, pl.2). The hands of Christ and the Virgin, with their exceptionally long and splayed fingers, together with the pattern of the background, suggest that this painting may be the work of the 'Master of the Long Forefingers' (cf. Jean Porcher, Les manuscrits à peintures en France du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris, 1955, pl. XV; and Carl Nordenfalk, 'Maître Honoré and Jean Pucelle', in Apollo , 79, 1964, pp. 362-3). With : Crucifixion, miniature cut from an illuminated manuscript on vellum. [Eastern Europe?, 15th century]. 85 x 132mm. Christ on the cross, flanked by two tormenters with lance and vinegar, and by Mary and John. (Irregularly trimmed; substantial abrasion and loss of pigment; not examined out of frame.) Framed and glazed. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

CRUCIFIXION, miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL ON VELLUM. [France, probably Paris, early 14th century] Miniature: 206 x 135mm; leaf: 272 x 180mm. Christ on the cross, flanked by Mary and John. The emaciated corpus is clothed in a white loincloth. Mary and John are dressed identically in orange robes, with mantles of white lined in blue, and each carries a book in the left hand. The cross rises from a bare brown mount, and at the top of the picture two whirlwinds emerge from white and blue clouds. The three haloes, the two books, and the two whirlwinds are of liquid gold. The entire scene is placed against a tesselated background in two shades of dark gray, each square of which contains a quatrefoil. The border, of burnished gold and pink with white tracery, has a liquid gold medallion in each corner, and is surrounded by burnished gold ivy leaves on black hairline stems, with a small burnished gold cross on a blue ground in the lower margin. (Creased and cockled; some abrasion of colours and gold; a few small stains and wormholes in margins; not examined out of frame.) Framed and glazed. The miniature is in the style of Mâitre Honoré and is possibly to be attributed to one of his followers (cf. the similar composition reproduced in François Avril, Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: The Fourteenth Century , New York, 1978, pl.2). The hands of Christ and the Virgin, with their exceptionally long and splayed fingers, together with the pattern of the background, suggest that this painting may be the work of the 'Master of the Long Forefingers' (cf. Jean Porcher, Les manuscrits à peintures en France du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris, 1955, pl. XV; and Carl Nordenfalk, 'Maître Honoré and Jean Pucelle', in Apollo , 79, 1964, pp. 362-3). With : Crucifixion, miniature cut from an illuminated manuscript on vellum. [Eastern Europe?, 15th century]. 85 x 132mm. Christ on the cross, flanked by two tormenters with lance and vinegar, and by Mary and John. (Irregularly trimmed; substantial abrasion and loss of pigment; not examined out of frame.) Framed and glazed. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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