The Dedication of a Church , initial ‘T’ from the Gradual of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany
Master of the Parisian Entries (Jean Coene IV), active Paris, c. 1500-1520
about 1498-1500
Gouache and gold leaf on vellum
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 8 7/16 in. (21.6 × 21.4 cm)
Frame: 18 1/16 × 18 1/8 in. (45.9 × 46.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Steven Tseng, Class of 1995, Tuck 2001, in honor of Pamela Crossley, Professor of History
2025.10
Geography
Place Made: France, Western Europe, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Watercolor
European History
Not on view
Published References
F. Avril, “Deux miniatures découpées,” Les Enluminures du Louvre. Moyen Âge et Renaissance, ed. F. Avril, D. Cordellier, and N. Reynaud, Paris, 2011, no. 118-119, pp. 225. M.-B. Cousseau, Étienne Colaud et l’enluminure parisienne sous le règne de François Ier, Tours/Rennes, 2016. C. De Hamel, Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, 2010. I. Delaunay, “Le Maître des Entrées Parisiennes,” in “Le Graduel de Saint-Dié,” Art de l’Enluminure 26 (2008), pp. 52-70. P.-G. Girault, “Louis XII et Anne de Bretagne en prière devant la Couronne d’épines,” in Trésors enluminés des Musées de France. Pays de la Loire et Centre, 2013, no. 19, pp. 100-103. E. König, Boccacio und Petrarca in Paris. Leuchtendes Mittelalter, Neue Folge 1, Ramsen, 1997. A. Leroux de Lincy, Vie de la Reine Anne de Bretagne, femme des rois de France Charles VIII et Louis XII, suivie de lettres inédites et de documents originaux, Paris, 1860, vol. 2, p. 86. N. Herman, “Louis + Anne Forever,” Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis, 20 March 2020: http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/louis-anne-forever
Provenance
King Louis XII of France (r. 1498-1515) and Anne of Brittany; most likely Sainte-Chapelle, Paris; disassembled before 1840; collection, Paris; Anatole France (1844-1924), Paris, France; his collection sale Drouot, Paris, 20-21 April 1932 lot 56; Les Enluminures, Paris; sold to Steven and Anne Tseng, New Canaan, CT, 2025; given to the present collection, 2025.
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