Heures de Dunois - BL YatesThompson3 f32v - Jugement dernier

The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French manuscript illuminator believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. His name comes from a book of hours made for

Jean de Dunois Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois (23 November 1402 – 24 November 1468), known as the "Bastard of Orléans" (french: bâtard d'Orléans) or simply Jean de Dunois, was a French military leader during the Hundred Years' War who participated in m ...

now in the

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(Yates Thompson MS 3). He worked in association with the

Bedford Master The Bedford Master was a manuscript illuminator active in Paris during the fifteenth century. He is named for the work he did on two books illustrated for John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford between 1415 and 1435. One is the Bedford Hours ...

, in whose

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he seems to have served; scholars consider him to be the most talented of the Bedford Master's assistants. He is usually assumed to have taken over the workshop when the Bedford Master ceased to be active, or to have set up his own with some of the artists.Reynolds, 526-528 His style is characterized by soft modeling of forms, and a fondness for pale colors and shell

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Manuscripts

* Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins Hours, late 1440s, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 3226 * Dunois Hours, London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 3 * Book of Hours of Simon de Varie, 1455, with

Jean Fouquet Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from ...

and Jean Rolin Master. The three parts of this manuscript are KB 74 G37, KB 74 G37a and Getty Center Ms. 7 * Book of hours in the

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, Cambridge, MS McClean 81 * ''Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes'',

musée Condé The Musée Condé – in English, the Condé Museum – is a French museum located inside the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise, 40 km north of Paris. In 1897, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of Louis Philippe I, bequeathed the ...

, ms. 860, ca 1465

Notes

References

* Reynolds, Catherine, "The 'Très Riches Heures', the Bedford Workshop and Barthélemy d'Eyck", ''

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'', Vol. 147, No. 1229 (Aug., 2005), pp. 526–533
JSTORBiography at Getty website

Detailed record for the Dunois Hours on the BL site

Bibliography

* F. Avril and N. Reynaud: Quand la peinture était dans les livres. Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440–1520, Paris, 1993, p. 38 * Dominique Thiébaut (dir.): Primitifs français. Découvertes et redécouvertes : Exposition au musée du Louvre du 27 février au 17 mai 2004, Paris, RMN, 2004, 192 p. (), p. 89-92 15th-century French painters French male painters Manuscript illuminators Anonymous artists {{France-painter-stub