id: 106343 accession number: 1924.426 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.426 updated: 2022-09-12 09:10:15.407000 Miniature from a Book of Hours: The Pentecost, c. 1500. Jean Poyet (French). Tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 17.5 x 11.7 cm (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.426 title: Miniature from a Book of Hours: The Pentecost title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: France, Tours, early 16th Century technique: Tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Poyet (French) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 17.5 x 11.7 cm (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mirror of the Middle Ages opening date: 1978-03-28T05:00:00 Mirror of the Middle Ages. Tweed Museum of Art University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (organizer) (March 28-April 30, 1978). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation, Gallery 113, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 29, 2012 - January 14, 2014). --- PROVENANCE (Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Jean Poyet was multitalented; he was an illuminator, painter, and draftsman. digital description: In the 1400s, the city of Tours became the seat of the French royal court. With a simultaneous flourishing of the arts in the city, Tours became the center of an important school of illuminators and painters. The work of Jean Poyet, an influential artist in this school, was much in demand within court circles. Not only an illuminator, Poyet was also a painter and draftsman whose travels to Renaissance Italy influenced his style. He was a master of perspective and the subtle use of color and light to create figures who realistically occupy the space. wall description: The city of Tours in the Loire Valley, then the seat of the French court, was the center of an important school of illuminators and painters during the latter half of the 15th century. An important artist in this school was Jean Poyet, whose work was much in demand within court circles. Poyet illustrated several devotional books for his patroness, Queen Anne of Brittany, and is also known to have worked for the French king, Charles VIII. This miniature depicting the Pentecost would have introduced the Hours of the Holy Spirit in a luxury book of hours likely made for an aristocratic patron. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Anne M. Nill, and W. H. Bond. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 1935. page number: II, p. 1928 url: Plummer, John, and Gregory T. Clark. The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530 : from American Collections. 1982. page number: 75*87, cat. no. 12 url: Hofmann, Mara. Jean Poyer: das Gesamtwerk. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. page number: p. 295 url: Dreyer, Elizabeth. Holy Power, Holy Presence: Rediscovering Medieval Metaphors for the Holy Spirit. New York: Paulist Press, 2007. page number: Cover page url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.426/1924.426_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.426/1924.426_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.426/1924.426_full.tif