Acts of Mercy: Freeing a Prisoner, ca. 1465

  • Simon Marmion, French, 1425-1489

Watercolor, white bodycolor, and gold on lined parchment

  • Sheet: 1 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (4.1 × 2.9 cm)
  • 11 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 7/8 inches (29.2 × 26.4 × 2.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Anne E. Shipman Stevens Bequest Fund and Julius H. Haass Fund

1993.50.1

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt [1759-1819] (Basel, Switzerland) (kept in album as folio 45). 25 April 1983, sold by descendants (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 37

John R. Gaines (New York, New York, USA). 17 November 1986, (Sotheby's, New York, New York) lot 1

(Sam Fogg, London, England). 1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts." auction cat., Sotheby's London, 25 April 1983, lot 137 (color ill.). "John R. Gaines Collection." auction cat., Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1986, lot 1 (color ill.). Hindman, S. "Medieval and Renaissance Miniature Painting" Exh. cat., London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd, and Tokyo/Nagoya, Maruzen Co. London, 1988/1989, pp. xiii, 74-75, (cat. 35). Clark, G.T. "Chronology of the Louthe Master and His Identification with Simon Marmion." in Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal, symposium paper 21-24 June 1990, Malibu, 1992, p. 206 (note 6). Brugerolles, E. The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1995, p. 4 (cited under cat. 1). Clancy, S. "Miniatures in the 'Marmion Style'." Bulletin of the DIA, 78, 1/2 (2004): pp. 40-53 (figs. 1 & 7).

manner of Simon Marmion, Acts of Mercy: Freeing a Prisoner, ca. 1465, watercolor, white bodycolor, and gold on lined parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Anne E. Shipman Stevens Bequest Fund and Julius H. Haass Fund, 1993.50.1.