id: 140492 accession number: 1964.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.40 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:08.021000 Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425), c. 1404. Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1964.40 title: Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1404 creation date earliest: 1399 creation date latest: 1409 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Paris technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French) - artist --- measurements: Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination opening date: 1964-03-17T05:00:00 Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964). title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 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: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection opening date: 1989-02-14T05:00:00 Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989). title: Paris 1400. les arts sous Charles VI opening date: 2004-03-22T00:00:00 Paris 1400. les arts sous Charles VI. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (March 22-July 19, 2004). title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00 Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders opening date: 2019-07-07T04:00:00 Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-October 6, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Manuscripts et Livres Précieux Retrouvés en Allemagne, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, (1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (1881-1947), Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild (1926-1997), Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Meiss, Millard. “The Exhibition of French Manuscripts of the XIII-XVI Centauries at the Bibliotheque Nationale.” Art Bulletin XXXVIII (September 1956) page number: pp. 194-5 url: Porcher, Jean. French miniatures from illuminated manuscripts. London: Collins, 1960. page number: pp. 58-9 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962. 1962. page number: pp. 67-8 url: Meiss, Millard. “French and Italian Variations on an Early Fifteenth-Century Theme: St. Jerome and his Study.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXII (September 1963) page number: pp. 159 & 164 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January-March, 1964," The Art Quarterly XXVII (1964) page number: p. 204 & 208 url: Wixom, William D. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964). page number: pp. 53-55 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151989 Wixom, William D. "The Hours of Charles the Noble" Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 52 (March 1965) page number: pp. 50-91 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152039 Burt Wasserman, "News and Notes" Art Education 18, no. 1 (January 1965) page number: pp. 37-8 url: Winternitz, Emanuel. "The Hours of Charles the Noble: Musicians and Musical Instruments." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 3 (1965). page number: pp. 84-91 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152040 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. 57, 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n81 Bodleian Library, Otto Pächt, and J. J. G. Alexander. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1966. page number: p. 50, pl XLIX url: Wixom, William D. "The Hours of Charles the Noble." 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The golden age: manuscript painting at the time of Jean, Duke of Berry. 1979. page number: pp. 50-51 url: Calkins, Robert G. “An Italian in Paris: The Master of the Brussels Initials and his Participation in the French Book Industry.” Gesta 20 (1981) page number: pp. 225-6 url: De Winter, Patrick. "Art, Devotion and Satire." The Gamut 2 (Winter 1981) page number: pp. 42-59 url: Karłowska-Kamzowa, Alicja. Les relations artistiques entre la Pologne, la France, la Flandre et la Basse Rhenanie du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Poznań: UAM, 1981. page number: pp. 29-30 fig. 7c url: Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983. page number: p. 279 repr. p. 415 url: De Winter, Patrick M. "Bolognese Miniatures at the Cleveland Museum," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LXX (June 1983) page number: pp. 338-40, repr. p. 339-344 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159829 Calkins, Robert G. Programs of Medieval Illumination. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1984. page number: pp. 116 & 118 url: Winter, Patrick M. de. La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne, (1364-1404): étude sur les manuscrits à peintures d'une collection princière à l'époque du "Style gothique international". Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. page number: pp. 100, 108, fig. 265 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: Martínez de Aguirre, Javier. Arte y monarquía en Navarra, 1328-1425. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Departamento de Educación y Cultura, Institución Príncipe de Viana, 1987. page number: p. 313, 340, 341, 379 url: D'Amico, Rosalba, Renzo Grandi, and Jacques Le Goff. Il Tramonto del Medioevo a Bologna: il cantiere di San Petronio. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1987. page number: p. 171 url: University of Glasgow, and Nigel Thorp. 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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts London: Allen Lane with an imprint of Penguin Books. 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 422 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.40/1964.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.40/1964.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.40/1964.40_full.tif