Jean Colombe, workshop of
(Bourges, active c. 1460-65, d. between 1493 and 1498)

Coronation of the Virgin (158 x 108 mm.)
France, Bourges, c. 1480
Enthroned next to God the Father, the Virgin appears against a liquid gold backdrop with a row of seraphim along the upper border. A banderole bears the opening words of the text for Compline of the Hours of the Virgin: “Converte nos deus” (Convert us O God). The miniature is by Jean Colombe or his workshop; Colombe was one of the most prolific French illuminators of the later half of the fifteenth century. The style of the present illumination compares closely with that of a Book of Hours painted by Colombe c. 1480 (BnF, MS n. a. l. 3181).
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