id: 169747 accession number: 2011.62 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.62 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:50.942000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: John on Patmos (1 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1465. Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.62 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: John on Patmos (1 of 2 Excised Leaves) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1465 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1470 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Eastern France or Paris (?), 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 Jacques de Luxembourg (French) - artist --- measurements: Leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 50, illus. p. 53. --- PROVENANCE Damascène Morgand, Paris, France, sold to Thomas Yates Thompson date: -1894 footnotes: citations: Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), London, England date: 1894-1904 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1904, no. 31) date: May 3, 1904 footnotes: citations: [Bruce Ferrini (d. 2010), Akron, OH sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2011- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The miniature of St. John comes from a cycle of evangelist portraits forming the lessons following the calendar. The Evangelist John is shown seated on the Island of Patmos, to which he was banished by the Roman Emperor Domitian. It was here, as tradition has it, that John composed his Book of Revelation. A common motif is the inclusion of a mischievous devil who attempts to distract the saint from his sacred work by stealing his ink bottle. The Master of Jacques de Luxembourg had a strong sense of visual detail, particularly in architecture, which he typically combined with a flair for narrative. This points to his origin in eastern France or Flanders, though he may have actually worked in Paris. --- RELATED WORKS id: 169748 Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1465. Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.63 relationship: --- CITATIONS Thompson, Henry Yates, and M. R. James. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1898. page number: no.15 url: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of Valuable Books and Illuminated and Other Manuscripts: Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... on Tuesday, the 3rd Day of May, 1904. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1904. page number: no. 31 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 53, cat. no. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n65 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.62/2011.62_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.62/2011.62_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.62/2011.62_full.tif