id: 169738 accession number: 2011.54 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.54 updated: 2023-03-20 10:12:26.739000 Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion, c. 1300–1330. Flanders, Liège, 14th century. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 9.4 x 7.3 cm (3 11/16 x 2 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.54 title: Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1300–1330 creation date earliest: 1295 creation date latest: 1335 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Flanders, Liège, 14th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Leaf: 9.4 x 7.3 cm (3 11/16 x 2 7/8 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 * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 14, illus. p. 22 * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014. --- PROVENANCE [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]; [Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 11] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The diocese of Liège was extremely active as a production center for psalters and psalter-hours from the second half of the 1200s through about 1330. This market, no doubt, was stimulated by the need of women for a devotional text. As women were drawn to the convents of religious orders such as the Dominicans, the Beguines and Begards, and the Poor Clares, they had need of a book that would provide them with suitable devotional material. The psalter was the book that these women, many of whom were high-born, most commonly used. The present leaf, with its monumental miniature of the Crucifixion, and like many surviving 13th-century psalters, may have thus provided visual focus for the prayers of a woman in a convent setting. Customarily, the level of quality and the extent to which these books were decorated depended upon the means of the patron. --- 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. 22, cat. no. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n34 George, Philippe. Art et Patrimoine en Wallonie des Origines à 1789: Essai de Synthèse à la Lumière des Collections Américaines et Européennes. Namur: Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 201, fig. 302 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 176-179; Reproduced: p. 177 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.54/2011.54_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.54/2011.54_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.54/2011.54_full.tif