( fl Paris, 1401–17). French illuminator. A leading artist working in Paris in the Late Gothic style, he was named by Meiss after the cycle of miniatures in the Missal–Pontifical (c. 1405–7; Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 8886) of Etienne Loypeau, Bishop of Luçon. His works are distinguished by meticulous finish, elegance and subtle tonalities. Characteristic are his sinuous figures echoed by curling arabesques in the backgrounds. He specialized in the production of Books of Hours as suggested by the 21 extant examples known, mostly in public collections. A volume written in 1401 (Barcelona, Bib. Catalunya, MS. 1850), is the earliest dated Hours in which his work appears. His activity, however, also extended to other liturgical and devotional volumes, the latter exemplified by the compendium of moral treatises (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 926) that Marie de Berry received in 1406 from her confessor Simon de Courcy. By 1406 the Master and his workshop also began illustrating secular texts destined for Jean, Duc de Berry, and John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and their retainers. Among this more diversified production are volumes of the works of Aristotle (Brussels, Bib. Royale Albert ler, MSS 9089–90; Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 208), Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics (Holkham Hall, Norfolk, MS. 307), the Décades of Valerius Maximus (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 6147), Boccaccio’s Cas des nobles hommes (Geneva, Bib. Pub. & U., MS. 190) and Gerbert de Montreuil’s Roman de la violette (St Petersburg, Rus. N. Lib., MS. fr. Q.v.XIV, 3). Typical of the Luçon Master’s later works are the drapery borders of burnished and delicately tooled gold.

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