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Virgin and Child

ca. 1485
Not on view
The Master of Guillaume Lambert is one of three illuminators thought to have collaborated in a busy workshop headed by a scribe in late fifteenth-century Lyon. This page layout is typical of miniatures produced by the atelier: a central image surrounded on both sides by vertical piers containing sculpted figures of saints, with a horizontal band of large text running below. Although the original book of hours to which this leaf belonged is now dismembered, three other pages survive, indicating that it was a lavish production probably made on commission. The close-up, three-quarter-length depiction of the Virgin and child was widespread in French manuscript illumination of the period.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Virgin and Child
  • Artist: Master of Guillaume Lambert (French, Lyons, active 1480s)
  • Date: ca. 1485
  • Culture: French, Lyons
  • Medium: Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
  • Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (13.4 x 8.2cm); Miniature: 4 9/16 x 2 3/8 in. (11.6 x 6.1 cm)
  • Classification: Manuscripts and Illuminations
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.2466
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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