GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Dessins et peintures anciens – Oude tekeningen & schilderijen
Oude tekeningen & schilderijen
Dessins et peintures anciens
1 [Miniature]
Attributed to COLOMBE, Jean - David returning with the head
of Goliath. Bourges, ca. 1480.
Miniature (ca. 16,2 x 10,6 cm) on vellum (c. 18 x 12,6 cm), with on verso a Latin
prayer in a gothic hand with 2-line gilt initials on a blue background. In very
good condition.
2.000 / 3.000 €
blue, red, pink and green, consists of a floral design with vines, gilt dots and to
the left a praying man dressed in white. On the «right» page (the beginning of)
a Latin prayer (14 ll.) with a 5-line gilt initial «S» in blue and green, extending on
3 sides into a gilt border with red, blue and green vines. The border decoration,
mainly in blue, red, pink and green, featuring to the right the «Agnus Dei» and
at the bottom a kneeling praying man. On the verso of each «page» parts of the
Latin prayer, written in brown ink.
A splendid «lost» medieval painting by the Master of
Beatrijs van Assendelft from the largest recorded Book
of Hours from the Northern Netherlands
Well-executed large miniature by the most important miniaturist of Bourges,
Jean Colombe (ca. 1430-1493). Painted within a yellow and red ruled border, the
miniature shows a medieval landscape with a reddish-brown road winding from
a green plain below along grey and brown rocks towards a densely populated
army camp (in the centre of the upper half) with numerous soldiers and yellow
tent roofs adorned with a flag in top. On the right a forest, a reddish-pink stone
house and a blue castle in the distance. At front below the fallen and beheaded
giant Goliath in yellow-golden knight’s armour with next to him his shield and
helmet. In the centre of the painting the running triumphant David dressed in
blue and holding the large giant’s head in his left hand. To the left of the centre,
written in a banderole, the beginning of a Latin prayer with a 3-line gilt initial
«D» on a blue background and a small initial «M”on a violet background.
2 [Miniature]
The Holy Virgin (with Child) standing on the Crescent. [France?,
15th c.].
Vellum bifolium (c. 14,5 x 22 cm) from a Latin Book of Hours. In good condition
(sl. rubbed at fore-edge margin of «left» page).
2.000 / 3.000 €
On the «left» page, within a gilt border, a miniature (c. 8,6 x 5,5 cm) showing,
on a blue background, the Child, standing on a crescent, and dressed in blue,
surrounded by a «corona» of large gilt flames. The border decoration, mainly in
3 [Miniature]
Attributed to MASTER OF BEATRIJS VAN ASSENDELFT’S
«LEVEN VAN JEZUS» - Standing Virgin and Child as the
Apocalyptic Woman. [Delft], C. 1480-1490.
Very large miniature on vellum (leaf ca. 22,8 x 15,7 cm, miniature ca. 21,5 x
14,5 cm).
10.000 / 15.000 €
Exceptional miniature originating from a major unpublished Dutch Book
of Hours in Latin and Dutch, presently in a European private collection. The
manuscript originally containing the present miniature of the Virgin and Child
is quite important, among other reasons, because it is the largest Book of
Hours known to have been made in the Northern Netherlands during the
15th century. It is noteworthy as well in having texts in both Latin and Dutch,
and in including an unusually large number of prayers, including a good number
that appear to be unknown in other Dutch Books of Hours. It is illustrated and
decorated throughout by the Master of Beatrijs van Assendelft’s Leven van
Jezus. Although there is no reliable evidence to identify the person for whom
the manuscript was made (the patron can, however, be identified as a woman
because of the use of feminine forms in some of the texts), it has been suggested,
if only speculatively, that this might have been Beatrijs van Assendelft herself.
The pencil foliation in that manuscript has missing leaves of various fols.,
including number «138», which is the folio number found on the present leaf.
The measurements also confirm the identification, as the manuscript is 22,9 cm
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