id:			169747
accession number:	2011.62
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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)
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creation date:			c. 1465
creation date earliest:		1460
creation date latest:		1470
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	France, Eastern France or Paris (?), 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 Jacques de Luxembourg (French)  - artist

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measurements: Leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations
	opening date:   1999-12-19T00:00:00
	<i>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 50, illus. p. 53.

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PROVENANCE

	Damascène Morgand, Paris, France, sold to Thomas Yates Thompson
	date: -1894
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	Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), London, England
	date: 1894-1904
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	(Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1904, no. 31)
	date: May 3, 1904
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	[Bruce Ferrini (d. 2010), Akron, OH sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
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	Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -2011
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2011-
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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.
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CITATIONS

	Thompson, Henry Yates, and M. R. James<em>. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson.</em> Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1898.
	page number: 	no.15
	url:		

	Sotheby, Wilkinson &amp; Hodge. <em>Catalogue of Valuable Books and Illuminated and Other Manuscripts: Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... on Tuesday, the 3rd Day of May, 1904</em>. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson &amp; Hodge, 1904.
	page number: 	no. 31
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</em>. 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

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