id: 160821 accession number: 1999.130 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.130 updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:34.728000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment, 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 12.6 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.130 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1430s creation date earliest: 1430 creation date latest: 1440 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Flanders, Ghent (?), 15th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) - artist (Jean de Pestivien?) * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Each leaf: 12.6 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations opening date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00 The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). title: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). 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 (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00 The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 43, illus. p. 46. * The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts" * Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); "The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections" * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014. --- PROVENANCE [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Master of Guillebert de Mets is named after the scribe who records his name in an illuminated copy of the Decameron, made for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, and for which he contributed many of its miniatures. He was active from about 1410 to 1445. So far there is no proof that allows us to follow his career or to know precisely where he worked. Calendars in other manuscripts with which he is associated suggest his shop may have been in Tournai, Liège, Bruges, and more credibly, Ghent. His commissions may have been linked to the itinerant Burgundian court, though no original provenance survives for any of his manuscripts. The Master of Guillebert de Mets painted in an easily recognizable style. His figures have prominent heads with well-delineated eyes and small mouths, slender torsos with thin, spindly legs, and long, finely worked fingers. Many of his miniatures, such as The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment here, show that he often favored mosaic backgrounds of delicately worked checkered patterns. --- RELATED WORKS id: 163800 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit), 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 12.7 x 8.4 cm (5 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2005.205 relationship: id: 169742 Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion, 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 14.1 x 10.1 cm (5 9/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.58 relationship: --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: p. 46, cat. no. 43 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n58 Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique, et. al. "A l'Escu de France": Guillebert de Mets et la peinture de livres à Gand à l'époque de Jan van Eyck (1410-1450). Bruxelles : Institut royal du patrimoine artistique, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p 456, fig. 10.94 (v. 1); Mention: p. 652, #17 (v.2) url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 192-195; Reproduced: p. 193 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.130/1999.130_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.130/1999.130_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.130/1999.130_full.tif