Enguerrand Quarton

Enguerrand Quarton, also called Enguerrand Charrenton (* 1412 or 1415 in Laon, † 1466 in Avignon ) was a French painter and illuminator of the late Middle Ages. He is regarded as the main master of the school of Avignon.

As a master of the Pietà de Villeneuve ( fr. Maître de la Pieta de Villeneuve ), he was called by name not known late medieval painters in art history to the early 20th century, named after the resulting 1455 Pietà de Villeneuve, now in the professional world is generally recognized as a work of Enguerrand Quarton. The Master of the Pieta de Villeneuve was thus given his true name.

Although little is really sure about the Master of the Pieta de Villeneuve known, but could be assigned relatively convincing over time, that it is with him is Enguerrand Charonton under whose name the work is excellent today.

The Pietà of Villeneuve

The Gothic painter created the picture of the Pietà, the mother of Jesus at the Lamentation of the corpse of her son. The work is expected to be the most important images of the 15th century in France.

Prosper Mérimée had the Pieta de Villeneuve more or less accidentally discovered in his work as inspector of the new French Monuments Office in 1834 in the village church of Villeneuve- lès -Avignon in the south of France and recognized the importance of this work of a painter of the School of Avignon. The image was then publicly exhibited in Paris in 1904 and purchased as a picture of a remained anonymous master from the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It can be seen today in the Louvre and is considered one of his most important works in the collection of works from the European Middle Ages.

Book illumination

Quarton, whose style is distinguished by characteristic features of coloring, shaping and iconography, have been attributed by the research a number of illuminated manuscripts. As the first scientists said François Avril of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in appropriate assumptions in 1977. In a document of 1444 Quarton and Barthélemy d' Eyck detected in Aix en Provence, and from this time dated an unfinished book of hours, which is now preserved in the Pierpont Library, and on the morning have both worked closely together. The miniatures of the Hours are probably drawn by d' Eyck, painted, they were of Quarton, the fully executed some miniatures of the Hours. Another Book of Hours similar quality is preserved in the Huntington Library in San Marino in Pasadena. A Missal of 1466 in the French National Library contains two full-page illustrations and a series of illuminated initials. The Boucicaut Hours also includes two full-page miniatures, Quarenton be attributed and that have emerged in the 1460s. Furthermore, thumbnails are attributed to them in the Book of Hours of Naumur.

Other works

• Schutzmantelmadonna the Cadard family, in collaboration with Pierre Vilatte ( 1452 ), now in the Musée Condé in Chantilly