Guillaume Barbe and his Workshop
(Rouen, active 1459-1485)
Head of an Older Man (Donor?) from the Cathedral of Rouen (27.2 x 19.9 cm.)
France, Rouen, c. 1460-65

This head of an elderly man is wholly characteristic of the production of the workshop of Guillaume Barbe, the founder of a dynasty of glass painters established in Rouen between 1459 and 1527. Well documented in the archives, Guillaume and successive generations of glass painters, Jehan Barbe (from 1488) and his son-in-law, were established at the sign of the “Escu de Voirre” on the rue St. Romain in Rouen. The drawing of the eyes, eyebrows, and eyelids, the sensitive handling of the down-turned lips, the slight crook in the nose, and the distant regard of the figure are not only characteristic of Guillaume but they suggest that he painted this portrait from life.
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