id: 163799 accession number: 2005.204 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.204 updated: 2023-03-20 10:12:16.243000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew, c. 1415–20. Follower of Limbourg Brothers (Netherlandish). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2005.204 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1415–20 creation date earliest: 1410 creation date latest: 1425 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Paris (?), 15th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Limbourg Brothers (Netherlandish) - artist The Limbourg brothers consist of three Netherlandish illuminators, Jean, Paul, and Herman de Limbourg --- measurements: Leaf: 18.1 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 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: 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 * Main Gallery Rotation, Gallery 115, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014. --- PROVENANCE [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL and Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2005 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2005- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This miniature would have marked the beginning of the gospel hours in a book of hours. digital description: The style of this miniature can be linked to the Limbourg Brothers, celebrated Dutch miniature painters who were active in France, particularly Burgundy. They are known to have first worked for Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and later for Duke Jean de Berry. The palette of this miniature, with its ultramarine blues, soft pink, and pale green, as well
as the crisp geometric pattern behind the figure, is typical of the Limbourgs’ work. In a book of hours, this miniature would have introduced the start of the gospel lessons. wall description: The Limbourg Brothers were famous Dutch miniature painters from the city of Nijmegen. They were active in France and Burgundy during the early 1400s, working in the style known as International Gothic. The Limbourgs are known to have first worked for Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and later for Duke Jean de Berry. Their uncle was the Netherlandish painter Jean Malouel, court painter to Philip the Bold. The palette of this miniature, with its ultramarine blues, soft pink, and pale green, as well as the crisp diapered ground, is typical of the Limbourgs’ work. Attention to volume and space as expressed by the abundant robes of the saint cascading over the ground are strongly suggestive of Burgundian court sculpture. This miniature appears to be by the hand of an artist directly acquainted with the Limbourgs’ work and illustrates their influence on French illuminators. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 31, cat. no. 23 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n43 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.204/2005.204_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.204/2005.204_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.204/2005.204_full.tif