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Jean Bourdichon
(Tours, 1457-1521)
Presentation in the Temple (115 x 90 mm.)
France, Tours, c. 1490s
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This delicately painted miniature is by the celebrated Jean Bourdichon, who succeeded Jean Fouquet as peintre du roi in the early 1480s. Although the Book of Hours from which this miniature comes remains unidentified, the accomplished style and unique iconography evoke the illumination of the same subject in Bourdichon’s Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Paris, BnF, MS lat. 9474, f. 74) Comparison with two leaves in Lisbon (Gulbenkian Foundation, M. 2A-B), which date c. 1494, suggests that our miniature may date early in Bourdichon’s career. |
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