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The Maître de Wavrin, Master of Wavrin or Master of Jean Wavrin, Wavrin Master (and other variants), was a French painter and manuscript illuminator active in the region of
Unlike most of the illuminators of the time, who painted on parchment, the Master of Wavrin uses, with one exception, only paper and
* Pascal Schandel, ''Le Maître de Wavrin et les miniaturistes lillois à l'époque de Philippe le Bon et de Charles le Téméraire'' (PhD thesis, Université Marc-Bloch de Strasbourg, 1997)
* Bernard Bousmanne and Thierry Delcourt, 'Miniatures flamandes', Bibliothèque nationale de France/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011, 464 p. (), pp. 358–366
Entry in the database JONAS
15th-century French painters Manuscript illuminators Wavrin, Master of {{France-painter-stub
The Maître de Wavrin, Master of Wavrin or Master of Jean Wavrin, Wavrin Master (and other variants), was a French painter and manuscript illuminator active in the region of Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. His name is derived from that of Jean de Wavrin
Jean de Waurin or Wavrin (c. 1400c. 1474) was a medieval French chronicler and compiler, also a soldier and politician. He belonged to a noble family of Artois, and witnessed the Battle of Agincourt from the French side, but later fought on the ...
, counselor to Philip III of Burgundy, for whom he seems to have worked. His illustrations, on paper or card, are colored with watercolor
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...
, and are held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France as well as in collections in Lille, Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, and Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...
.
He is not to be confused with another illuminator known as the Master of the London Wavrin.
Style
Unlike most of the illuminators of the time, who painted on parchment, the Master of Wavrin uses, with one exception, only paper and watercolor
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...
. His images are very restrained in colour tones, much less richly coloured than contemporary illuminations, and recall comic strips. Most of the works of the Master of Wavrin are illustrations of chivalric romances, comprising dozens of illuminations. They are often compared with those of the Maître du Champion des dames, another painter of Lille.
Bibliography
* Pascal Schandel, ''Le Maître de Wavrin et les miniaturistes lillois à l'époque de Philippe le Bon et de Charles le Téméraire'' (PhD thesis, Université Marc-Bloch de Strasbourg, 1997)
* Bernard Bousmanne and Thierry Delcourt, 'Miniatures flamandes', Bibliothèque nationale de France/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011, 464 p. (), pp. 358–366
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Entry in the database JONAS
15th-century French painters Manuscript illuminators Wavrin, Master of {{France-painter-stub