Master of the Jouvenel des Ursins

Jouvenel-Meister , Jouvenel-Maler or Meister des Jouvenel des Ursins is an emergency name for a French illuminator who was active in the mid-15th century . His work can be traced between 1447 and 1460. It is named after a copy of the Mare historiarum by Giovanni Colonna , which he illuminated for the Chancellor of France , Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins , with the help of various collaborators.

Identification attempts

There are various controversial attempts to identify the Jouvenel master with artists known by name, such as André d'Ypres , the father of Colin d'Amiens , or Coppin van Delft . In the past, researchers viewed the work of the Jouvenel painter as the work of Jean Fouquet's youth , but this point of view has since moved away. Eberhard König presented the first comprehensive handshift in the style group that has long been summarized as jeunesse de Fouquet , who conclusively contoured both the Jouvenel master and his younger colleague, the painter of Boccaccio from Geneva, and localized them to Angers, as well as other artistic personalities based on the eponymous handwriting could isolate.

Most recently, this thesis was confirmed by the acquisition of a book of hours in which one of the earliest known miniatures by Fouquet's hand can be found alongside miniatures by the Jouvenel master . Another major work by the painter, the so-called Book of Hours of Jeanne de France, formerly Martin Le Roy, was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale in 2012.

literature

Exhibition cat. Les Manuscrits à peintures en France. 1440-1520 , ed. v. François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Paris 1993.
Exhibition cat. Jean Fouquet. Peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle , ed. v. François Avril, Paris 2003.
Paul Durrieu, "La question des oeuvres de jeunesse de Jean Fouquet", in: Recueil de mémoires publié par la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France à l'occasion de son centenaire , 1904, pp. 111-119.
Eberhard König, French book illumination around 1450. The Jouvenel painter, the painter of Boccaccio from Geneva and the beginnings of Jean Fouquet. Berlin, Mann 1982. ISBN 3-7861-1311-4
Otto Pächt, "Jean Fouquet. A Study of His Style", in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , 1941, pp. 85-102.
Claude Schaefer, "Le maître de Jouvenel des Ursins (Coppin Delf?) Illustrateur du 'Speculum historiale' de Vincent de Beauvais", in: Arquivos do Centro Cultural Português , 1974, pp. 81-114.
Charles Sterling: La peinture médiévale à Paris. 1300-1500 , Vol. 2, Paris 1990, pp.?.

Individual evidence

↑ today in Paris, BN Ms. lat. 4915. The copy dates the completion of the last book on January 20, 1449 (after St.), see Porcher in exhibition cat. Manuscrits à peintures du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris 1955. Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins is also known as the commissioner of Jean Fouquet , who painted his portrait in the Louvre .
↑ Schaefer 1974 and especially Sterling 1990, who combined the style with Parisian book illumination and the environment of the Dunois master. Despite this thesis being taken up every now and then, the localization to Angers has largely prevailed. The identification by name of the artists from Paris, led by another part of the research as masters of the Dreux Budé and Coëtivy masters , with the Angevin illuminators cannot be maintained.
^ The thesis of the "jeunesse de Fouquet" first in Durrieu in 1904 and further pursued by Pächt in 1941.
↑ beginning with Porcher, who uses the designation "maître de Jouvenel des Ursins" in the exhibition cat. Manuscrits à peintures du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris 1955.
↑ King 1982.
↑ such as B. the Master of Poitiers 30 alias Master of Adelaide de Savoie after a book of hours in Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 76, see also the only monographic adaptation of this painter by Eberhard König, Der Meister von Poitiers 30. An unknown book of hours as a counterpart on the Book of Hours of the Adelaide of Savoy , Ramsen 2006.
↑ The Book of Hours for Use by Angers, Ms. NAL 3211, was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale in 1991 and reviewed in detail by Avril in 1993 and 2003.
^ Paris, BnF, ms. NAL 3244 : François Avril: "Les Heures de Jeanne de France, duchesse de Bourbon, un chef-d'œuvre du Maître de Jouvenel retrouvé . In: l'art de l'enluminure , No. 47, 2012 and König 1982, p 48f., 57-63, 80-82.

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Jouvenel des Ursins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jouvenel Master; Jouvenel painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1460

[1] today in Paris, BN Ms. lat. 4915. The copy dates the completion of the last book on January 20, 1449 (after St.), see Porcher in exhibition cat. Manuscrits à peintures du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris 1955. Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins is also known as the commissioner of Jean Fouquet , who painted his portrait in the Louvre .

[2] Schaefer 1974 and especially Sterling 1990, who combined the style with Parisian book illumination and the environment of the Dunois master. Despite this thesis being taken up every now and then, the localization to Angers has largely prevailed. The identification by name of the artists from Paris, led by another part of the research as masters of the Dreux Budé and Coëtivy masters , with the Angevin illuminators cannot be maintained.

[3] The thesis of the "jeunesse de Fouquet" first in Durrieu in 1904 and further pursued by Pächt in 1941.

[4] with Porcher, who uses the designation "maître de Jouvenel des Ursins" in the exhibition cat. Manuscrits à peintures du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , Paris 1955.

[5] King 1982.

[6] such as B. the Master of Poitiers 30 alias Master of Adelaide de Savoie after a book of hours in Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 76, see also the only monographic adaptation of this painter by Eberhard König, Der Meister von Poitiers 30. An unknown book of hours as a counterpart on the Book of Hours of the Adelaide of Savoy , Ramsen 2006.

[7] The Book of Hours for Use by Angers, Ms. NAL 3211, was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale in 1991 and reviewed in detail by Avril in 1993 and 2003.

[8] Paris, BnF, ms. NAL 3244 : François Avril: "Les Heures de Jeanne de France, duchesse de Bourbon, un chef-d'œuvre du Maître de Jouvenel retrouvé . In: l'art de l'enluminure , No. 47, 2012 and König 1982, p 48f., 57-63, 80-82.