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Leaf from a Book of Hours: John on Patmos (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Leaf from a Book of Hours: John on Patmos (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)

c. 1465
Location: not on view

Description

The miniature of St. John comes from a cycle of evangelist portraits forming the lessons following the calendar. The Evangelist John is shown seated on the Island of Patmos, to which he was banished by the Roman Emperor Domitian. It was here, as tradition has it, that John composed his Book of Revelation. A common motif is the inclusion of a mischievous devil who attempts to distract the saint from his sacred work by stealing his ink bottle. The Master of Jacques de Luxembourg had a strong sense of visual detail, particularly in architecture, which he typically combined with a flair for narrative. This points to his origin in eastern France or Flanders, though he may have actually worked in Paris.
  • -1894
    Damascène Morgand, Paris, France, sold to Thomas Yates Thompson
    1894-1904
    Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), London, England
    May 3, 1904
    (Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1904, no. 31)
    [Bruce Ferrini (d. 2010), Akron, OH sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
    -2011
    Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2011-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Thompson, Henry Yates, and M. R. James. A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1898. no.15
    Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of Valuable Books and Illuminated and Other Manuscripts: Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... on Tuesday, the 3rd Day of May, 1904. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1904. no. 31
    Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 53, cat. no. 50 archive.org
  • The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
    CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 50, illus. p. 53.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.62