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Miniature from Jacques Le Lieur, Poème sur la Passion
Illuminator: Master of Girard Acarie
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment pasted on paper, 152 x 104 mm
DECORATION: Full-page miniature in grisaille: Lamentation with the Virgin Mary, flanked by St John, kneeling beside her son’s lifeless body, set within an architectural frame with trees and foliage forming an arch over the scene.
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.
Bought from Les Enluminures
Method of acquisition: Bought (2012) by Les Enluminures
16th Century, second quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1530
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 152 mm
Width 104 mm
Accession number: MS 1-2012.2
Primary reference Number: 209060
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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