Noël Bellemare
(Antwerp-Paris, active 1512-1546)
Job Beset by Satan (114 x 63 mm.; min. 104 x 59 mm.)
France, Paris or Tours, c. 1525-30
A magnificent landscape and complex architecture provide the setting for the scantily clad figure of Job, who reclines before the menacing figure of Satan wielding a club. This miniature is one of a group of at least fourteen full-page miniatures, of which six were detached in the nineteenth century; the original manuscript once belonged to Baron Jérôme Pichon and three miniatures from it are in the Musée du Louvre. The jewel-like painting is attributed to the artist identified as Noël Bellemare, who was designated “master painter” at Fontainebleau.
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