id: 105933 accession number: 1924.1015 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.1015 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:56.525000 Single Miniature Excised from Boccaccio's Des Cleres et nobles femmes: Queen Medusa and Her Court, c. 1470. Circle of Maître François (French). Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 13 x 9.1 cm (5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.1015 title: Single Miniature Excised from Boccaccio's Des Cleres et nobles femmes: Queen Medusa and Her Court title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1470 creation date earliest: 1465 creation date latest: 1475 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: France, 15th century technique: tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maître François (French) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 13 x 9.1 cm (5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: The World of Miniature Painting opening date: 1953-09-20T04:00:00 The World of Miniature Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 20-November 10, 1953). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Detroit Institue of Art, "French Gothic Decorative Arts, 13th-15th Centuries" 11/9/1928-12/10/1928, no. 19.', 'opening_date': '1928-11-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Brooklyn Museum, "European Art, 1450-1500" 4/21/1936-6/3/1936, no. 94.', 'opening_date': '1936-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Baltimore Museum, "Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" 12/29/1948-3/22/1949, no. 110.', 'opening_date': '1948-12-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology, Toronto, "Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts" 3/10/1950-6/13/1950.', 'opening_date': '1950-03-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Carnegie Institute, "French Painting, 1100-1900" 9/27/1951-12/10/1951, no. 18.', 'opening_date': '1951-09-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Los Angeles County Museum, "Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" 11/12/1953-2/3/1954.', 'opening_date': '1953-11-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'University of Kansas, 10/23/1975-01/22/1976', 'opening_date': '1975-10-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'University of Michigan Museum of Art, "Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art" 10/23/1975-01/22/1976.', 'opening_date': '1975-10-23T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Jacques d'Armagnac, Duc de Nemours; Lord Mostyn, London (sale July 13, 1920, no. 9; entire MS); Mme. Th. Belin, Paris (remainder of MS., sale Paris, 1936); Durlacher Brothers, New York. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS W. M. M. “Illuminated Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 4 (April 1925): 61–71. page number: Mentioned: P. 70; Reproduced: P. 67, fig. g url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136832 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 21 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n23 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n26 Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 74 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n98 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 302-303; cat.no. VII-5 url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n329 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 74 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n98 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n105 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 43, 59 url: Huizinga, Johan, Graeme Small, Anton van der Lem, and Diane Webb. Autumntide of the Middle Ages: a study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries. [Leiden]: Leiden University Press, 2020. page number: Reproduced: P. 481, fig. 22.2 url: Delapierre, Emmanuelle, and Alexis Merle du Bourg. Sous le regard de Méduse: de la Grèce antique aux arts numériques. Paris : In Fine éditions d'art ; Caen : Musée beaux-arts, 2023. page number: Mentioned: p. 63; Reproduced: p. 58 and 64, fig. 18 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.1015/1924.1015_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.1015/1924.1015_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.1015/1924.1015_full.tif