Pasquier Grenier

Pasquier Grenier (* around 1425; † 1493 in Tournai ) was a picture maker and merchant who traded in tapestries, which he had made based on templates from his studio in Tournai.

Grenier was first mentioned in 1449 as a picture maker ( tapissier ). He quickly rose from a craftsman to the purveyor to the court of the Dukes of Burgundy and thus to a pure entrepreneur who let other craftsmen work according to his templates, called cardboard boxes . The cardboard boxes were made by special cardboard painters as commissioned work. Due to his top-class clientele, his work is exceptionally well documented for an artist and entrepreneur from the late Middle Ages . The certainty of the attribution of works to his studio is therefore unusually high, even if the carpets were probably woven by third parties according to his specifications from 1460 onwards.

For Philip the Good , he produced 1,459 carpets with the history of Alexander the Great , in 1461, among others carpets with the Passion story and further orders followed in 1462 and 1466. The city of Bruges acquired by him carpets with motifs of destruction of Troy to these Charles the Bold to Making gift.

After his death, his sons Antoine and Jean are proven to be pure entrepreneurs selling tapestries. Antoine supplied Cardinal Georges d'Amboise for Gaillon Palace in 1495 and 1508 . Jean Grenier supplied Philip the Fair . The city of Tournai acquired from him in 1513 a Cité des Dames carpet suite for Margaret of Austria .

Today Grenier carpets are in the first museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Historical Museum in Bern.

literature

• Pasquier Grenier . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 454.
• Grenier, Pasquier . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 598-599 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Remarks

1. ^ For example, Bernt Notke , cf. Kerstin Petermann: Bernt Notke. Berlin 2000, p. 172 ff. ISBN 3-496-01217-X
2. ↑ Example of a picture in the Metropolitan Museum
3. ↑ see Christine de Pizan , early women's rights activist.
4. ↑ Susan Groag Bell: Lost Tapestries and Political Symbolism. The Cité des Dames of Margaret of Austria.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.