Leaf from Thenaud's TRIUMPHES: The Triumph of Force, 1517

  • Thenaud Master, French, active 1517

Ink, tempera and gold on parchment

  • Sheet: 11 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (29.8 × 17.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Carl F. Clarke

53.5.A

Inscribed, on scroll: HONOS ALIT ARTES

commissioned by Louise of Savoy for her children Marguerite of Angouleme and Francis I (and his family) (France)

until French Revolution, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, France)

ca. 1780s, Peter Dubrovskii (in Paris 1778-1792) (Paris, France)

possibly Spitzer collection (New York, New York, USA)

(Julius H. Weitzner, New York, New York, USA)

1953-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Carl Frederic Clarke (died 1953

Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Laborde, A., de. "Les principaux manuscrits à peintures conserves dans l'ancienne Bibliothèque Imperiale Publique de Saint Petersbourg," II pt., SFRMP. Paris, 1938, pp. 153-154, pl. LXIV. Lecoq, Anne-Marie. François Ier imaginaire: Symbolique et politique a l'aube de la Renaissance française. Paris, 1987, pp. 287-288, repro. p. 289 (fig. 120) (also: for St. Petersburg manuscript: passim.).

Thenaud Master, Leaf from Thenaud's TRIUMPHES: The Triumph of Force, 1517, ink, tempera and gold on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Carl F. Clarke, 53.5.A.