id: 169742
accession number: 2011.58
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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
title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion
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creation date: 1430s
creation date earliest: 1430
creation date latest: 1439
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creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture: Flanders, Ghent?, 15th century
technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
* Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) - artist
(Jean de Pestivien?)
* Workshop - artist
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measurements: Leaf: 14.1 x 10.1 cm (5 9/16 x 4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 41, illus. p. 45.
* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014.
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PROVENANCE
[Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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id: 160821
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
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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. 45, cat. no. 41
url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n57
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. 450, fig. 1975 (v. 1); Mention: p. 161 (v.2)
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