Oeuvres de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Estienne Chevalier. [Works by Jehan Foucquet. Book of Hours of Maistre Estienne Chevalier] Chromolithographie by Lemercier & Cie.

Oeuvres de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Estienne Chevalier. Translated from French: Works by Jehan Foucquet. Book of Hours of Maistre Estienne Chevalier

4to (8.75" x 7.75") 1866-67. Foucquet, Jean. Paris: L. Curmur. Sumptuously bound in full red morocco by Abich rel. Gilt on spine and covers, 4 raised bands with 5 panels. Gilt title and voI. numbers in two compartments; fleur-de-lis stamped in the center of each. Publisher and date stamped in gilt at foot of each spine. A 1" richly gilt border appears within the double fillet framing each board with fleur-de-lis at each corner. Bindings signed "Abich rel." on lower right of each front cover. Inside each cover is a 1/2" wide inner dentelle ornamentation framing marble paper which matches the first free endpaper. Top edges gilt. All Pages and plates are stub mounted. Miniatures sumptuously illuminated and colored. Wide selections of colored borders employed. Bookplates of Eugenii Kelly on front flyleaves. Binding in near fine condition: internally only hints of faint age spotting, else in fine condition. The first edition of the first monograph devoted to the primitive painter Tourangeau, superbly printed. The reproduction of the book of hours of Estienne Chevalier, text restored by the abbot Delaunay, occupies the first volume. The text is framed with arabesques in Renaissance style and illustrated with a portrait of Pope Pius IX and 53 inset plates in chromolithography. The second volume contains several studies on the painter and his work and is illustrated with a figure drawn by Fossey, a portrait of the publisher, numerous boards in color and black, and chromolithographed titles.

From Wiki: The Hours of Étienne Chevalier is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to king Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet. Only 48 of its leaves with 47 miniatures survive, dispersed across seven collections in Europe and the United States of America, of which 40 illuminations are held at the Musée Condé in Château de Chantilly in France.

Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet ( 1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance. Little is known of Fouquet's early life and education. Though long assumed to have been an apprentice of the so-called Bedford Master of Paris it is now suggested that he may have studied under the Jouvenal Master in Nantes, whose works were formerly assumed to be early works by Fouquet. Sometime between 1445 and 1447 he travelled to Italy, where he came under the influence of Roman Quattrocento artists such as Fra Angelico and Filarete. During the 1450s he began working at the French court, where he counted kings Charles VII and his successor Louis XI among his many patrons.

Étienne Chevalier (c.1410 in Melun – 1474) was a major civil servant of the French kings Charles VII and Louis XI. He is also notable for commissioning two major works by Jean Fouquet - the Melun Diptych (which he gave to the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Melun) and the Hours of Étienne Chevalier (in which he is shown twice praying before the Virgin, to whom he is presented by his patron saint Stephen).

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