Master of François de Rohan
(Paris, active c. 1525-1546)
Messenger Brings a Letter: the Judgment (270 x 205 mm.) from Jean Cretin’s
Le Débat entre deux dames
France, Paris, 1525-1530
This leaf comes from the only surviving illuminated copy of a poem by Guillaume Cretin (died 1525), “The Debate between Two Women on the Pastimes of Dogs and Birds.” The poem considers the relative merits of hunting with dogs or hunting with birds and was illustrated with four miniatures. The fourth miniature of the final judgment (dogs win!), presented here, shows the clerk, who receives the letter containing the judgment in the left background and gives it to the count in the foreground. This miniature is by a distinctive artist, named the Master of François de Rohan, who created an artistic idiom that is wholly in keeping with the internationalism of King François I’s court at Fontainebleau.
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