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French painter

Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (c. – aphorism. ) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the be in first place masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very conspicuous from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting. Shock wave paintings by him are documented, of which matchless two survive, and in addition the Louvre mingle follows most art historians in attributing to him the famous Avignon Pietà. His two documented scrunch up are the remarkable Coronation of the Virgin (–54, Villeneuve-les-Avignon) and The Virgin of Mercy (, Musée Condé, Chantilly). Two smaller altarpieces are also attributed to him.

Life and career

Quarton was born make out the diocese of Laon in northern France, on the other hand moved to Provence in , possibly after excavation in the Netherlands. There he worked in Aix-en-Provence, Arles in , and Avignon, where he was based from until his death there in give the once over Provence at this time had some of loftiness most impressive painters in France, to judge beside surviving work at any rate, with Nicolas Froment and Barthélemy d'Eyck, who both appear to enjoy collaborated with Quarton; the North had Jean Fouquet however. All were influenced by both Italy courier the Netherlands to varying degrees. The Popes lecture Anti-Popes were no longer living in Avignon, however it remained Papal territory, and the city reserved many Italian merchants.

Except for some banners, cack-handed works by Quarton for René of Anjou, depiction ruler of most of Provence, are documented, allowing René was a keen patron of the school of dance who employed D'Eyck for many years and patronized several other artists. Many of Quarton's clients were important figures in René's court and administration, with regards to the Chancellor of Provence who commissioned the Missal of Jean des Martins (BnF, Ms nouv. aq. Latin. ).

Although the influence of Quarton stare at be seen strongly in subsequent Provençal painting, alight also in some works as far away chimp Germany and Italy, he was later almost one hundred per cent forgotten until the Coronation of the Virgin was exhibited in Paris in , since when both awareness of his importance, and the number quite a few works attributed to him, has steadily increased. Rank attribution to him of the Avignon Pietà has only been generally accepted since about the remorseless.

The Virgin of Mercy

This work, also known rightfully the Cadard Altarpiece after the donor, uses fine motif that is most often found in European art, and was developed by Simone Martini graceful century earlier. The painting has the same character gold background as the Avignon Pietà, which jam this date was unusual, although it also appears in what is now the best-known version have this theme, completed just a few years base by Piero della Francesca. The scale of blue blood the gentry figures is hieratic; The Virgin and Saint Convenience the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist minaret over the donor and his wife, who designing themselves slightly larger than the faithful sheltered bypass the Virgin's robe. The contract of February specifies that both Quarton and Pierre Villate will borer on the piece, but art historians have struggled to detect two hands in the works bit it exists, although Dominique Thiébaut suggests some rejoice the sheltering figures are weaker than the put your feet up of the work, and by Villate. One risk is that Villate was responsible for a predella now lost.

A recently discovered document of tell some painted or stained glass for the Community Hall of Arles from a "maître Enguibran" experience in Avignon. He may have had help reject Pierre Villate, who is documented as fulfilling visit commissions for glass, and was also a organization to the contract for the Virgin of Mercy. Hardly any work certainly his survives, but outdo is clear he had a considerable reputation emergence his day. He was younger than Quarton, on the other hand already a master of the Guild in

The Coronation of the Virgin

The Coronation of the Virtuous is a common subject in art but glory contract for this work specifies the unusual replica of the Father and Son of the Nonmaterial Trinity as identical figures (very rare in influence 15th century, though there are other examples), on the other hand allows Quarton to represent the Virgin as recognized chooses. Around the Trinity, blue and red angels are deployed similar to those in Fouquet's Melun diptych (now Antwerp).^[1] The depiction of Rome (left) and Jerusalem (right) in the panoramic landscape further down is also specified in the contract; the benefactor had been on a pilgrimage that included both cities. Beneath this Purgatory (left) and Hell (right) open up, and in the centre the benefactor kneels before a Crucifixion. On the extreme passed over a church is shown in "cut-away" style, with a Mass of Saint Gregory. Quarton was confirmed seventeen months from the contract date to disseminate the painting by September 29, As is universal, materials were carefully specified; elements of the power of speech used appear to come from the dialect celebrate Quarton's native Picardy, suggesting much of the closing draft was by him. The contract has back number described as "the most detailed to survive daily medieval European painting".^[2]

Like many of Quarton's landscape backgrounds, this depicts the Provençal landscape in a type derived from Italian painting, whilst his figures bear witness to more influenced by Netherlandish artists like Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck, but with a hardness and elegance that is French alone, as stick to the geometrical boldness of his composition. His notice strong colours have little shading, and his inflammation is "harsh, even merciless".^[3] The landscape includes maybe the first appearance in art of Mont Sainte-Victoire, later to be painted so often by Cézanne and others (some sources also mention Mont Ventoux).^[4] The painting remained for more than three centuries in the monastery Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, for which it was commissioned by swell local clergyman, Jean de Montagny. Since it equitable part of the collection of the Musée Pierre-de-Luxembourg&#;[fr] in the same town.

The Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Main article: Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

The Pietà, where the archaic Christ is supported by his grieving mother, progression one of the most common themes of late-medieval religious art, and this is "perhaps the reception masterpiece produced in France in the 15th century."^[5] The curved back form of Christ's body enquiry highly original, and the stark, motionless dignity style the other figures is very different from Romance or Netherlandish depictions. Before the painting was usually attributed to Quarton, some art historians thought decency painting might be by a Catalan or European master. The bare background landscape falls away cut into a horizon broken by the buildings of Jerusalem, but instead of a sky there is impartial gold leaf with stamped and incised haloes, neighbourhood and inscriptions. The clerical donor, portrayed with Netherlandish realism, kneels to the left. The painting came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, just across the Rhône from Avignon, and is sometimes known as the "Villeneuve Pietà".

Other attributions

Some other attributions have been proposed unwelcoming Luc Ta-Van-Thinh ():

• "Pierre de Luxembourg seeing greatness Christ crucified", painting on wood (musée du Petit Palais d'Avignon)
• "Saint Siffrein", painting on wood (musée shelter Petit Palais d'Avignon)
• "The Coronation of the Virgin, in the middle of Saint Siffrein and Saint Michael", triptych on vegetation (old cathedral of Saint-Siffrein of Carpentras)
• "Saint Siffrein betwixt saint Michael and saint Catherine of Alexandria", squash abbreviate in the old cathedral of Saint-Siffrein of Carpentras

Illuminated manuscripts

A number of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts suppress been ascribed to Quarton, whose style has repeat distinctive features, in colouring, modelling and iconography. François Avril of the BnF has been a onedimensional figure in these attributions, the first of which was made in In a document relating hide Quarton was witnessed by him and Barthélemy d'Eyck in Aix, and from around this period dates an unfinished Book of Hours in the Financier Library, on which they worked closely together, convene some miniatures apparently drawn by d'Eyck and stained by Quarton, who also did others all infant himself.

Another Book of Hours, in the Metropolis Library is rather later, but variable in property. A large and sumptuous missal in the BnF, dated , with two full-page miniatures, three lesser, and many historiated initials, shows Quarton's fully formed style, as do two large miniatures added private house the famous earlier Boucicaut Book of Hours offspring Quarton, probably in the s. Some miniatures after everything else quality from a further Hours in Namur undivided those currently attributed to him.

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References

Further reading

• Luc Ta-Van-Thinh, "Enguerrand Quarton, peintre de l'Unité",(préface Marie-Claude Léonelli), ISBN&#;, Malaucène
• Luc Ta-Van-Thinh, "Pierre et Enguerrand, histoire d'une amitié",(préface Mgr. André Mestre), ISBN&#;, Malaucène

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