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Miniature from Jacques Le Lieur, Poème sur la Passion: MS 1-2012.1

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Miniature from Jacques Le Lieur, Poème sur la Passion

Maker(s)

Illuminator: Master of Girard Acarie

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment pasted on paper, 154 x 101 mm

DECORATION: Full-page miniature in grisaille: Ecce Homo with Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Christ to a hostile crowd, set within an architectural frame with trees and foliage forming an arch over the scene.

Notes

History note: Sold as one of a set of related miniatures at Phillips, London, 20 October 1983, lot 467; purchased by Maggs who offered four miniatures in 1984 (Bulletin 12, nos. 96-99) and eight (including one of the previous four) in 1985 (Catalogue 1059, nos. 64-71); from the collection of Neil Phillips (no. 1118) sold at Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1997, lot 80; from Les Enluminures in 2012.

Legal notes

Bought from Les Enluminures

Place(s) associated

  • Rouen ⪼ France

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2012) by Les Enluminures

Dating

16th Century, second quarter#
Production date: circa AD 1530

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Pigments
Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment
Page Height 154 mm Width 101 mm

Techniques used in production

Illumination

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Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 1-2012.1
Primary reference Number: 209059
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 7 July 2016 Updated: Tuesday 26 January 2021 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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