Master of Jouvenel explained

The Master of Jouvenel (French: Maître de Jouvenel) was an anonymous master illuminator active between 1447 and 1460. The painter, to whom many manuscripts are attributed, was undoubtedly at the head of a workshop, also called Groupe Jouvenel from which the Master of Boccace of Geneva came from, or the Master of Boethius. The painter owes his name to a manuscript in the Mare Historium commissioned by Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, for which his workshop produced 730 miniatures.^{[1] [2]}

Attributed manuscripts

• Mare historiarum of Giovanni Colonna, addition of miniatures circa 1448-1450 for Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, Bibliothèque nationals de France, Lat. 4915
• Moralized Bible of Philip the Bold, circa 1450, additions of miniatures after the first miniatures of the Limbourg brothers around 1402–1404. BNF, Fr. 166
• Book of hours for the use of Angers, 1450–1455, BNF, NAL3211 (14 of the 18 miniatures, in collaboration with Jean Fouquet)
• Book of hours for the use of Paris, circa 1450–1455, BNF Latin 1417 (workshop)
• Book of hours for the use of Nantes, in collaboration with the Maître du Boccace de Genève, British Library, Add.28785^[3]
• Book of hours of Louis d'Anjou, Bastard of Maine, Fitzwilliam Museum, Ms39-1950
• Book of hours of Joan of France, 1452, private collection, acquired by the BNF in 2012^[4]
• Book of hours for Paris use, circa 1460, Pierpont Morgan Library, M199^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Master of Jouvenel des Ursins, active 1447-1460 - Medieval Manuscripts. medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
2. Book: Campbell, Gordon. The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art. January 15, 2009. Oxford University Press. www.oxfordreference.com. 10.1093/acref/9780195334661.001.0001. 978-0-19-533466-1.
3. Web site: The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. C.. Wight. www.bl.uk.
4. Web site: BnF - Participez à l'acquisition d'un Trésor national, le Livre d'heures de Jeanne de France . www.bnf.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120830210529/http://www.bnf.fr/fr/anx_mecenat/a.mecenat_jeanne_france.html . 2012-08-30.
5. http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=osin+%22ms+M.199%22&Search_Code=CMD&CNT=50%20&HIST=1