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Leaf from Thenaud's TRIUMPHES: Text with Ornamental "N"
1517
Thenaud Master
active 1517
French
Unknown
Ink, tempera and gold on parchment
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (10.8 × 17.1 cm)
Manuscripts
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Carl F. Clarke
53.5.B
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Provenance
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)
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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.).
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Thenaud Master, Leaf from Thenaud's TRIUMPHES: Text with Ornamental "N", 1517, ink, tempera and gold on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Carl F. Clarke, 53.5.B.
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