Acts of Mercy: Freeing a Prisoner

ca. 1465

Simon Marmion French, 1425-1489

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Title Acts of Mercy: Freeing a Prisoner

Artwork Date ca. 1465

Artist Simon Marmion

Life Dates 1425-1489

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Watercolor, white bodycolor, and gold on lined parchment

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

Classification Manuscripts

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1993.50.1

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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)

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Published References

"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).

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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.