Josse Lieferinxe

Josse Lieferinxe ( † before 1508 in Marseille) was a French painter of Flemish origin or picardischer. He was a member of the Provençal school of the fifteenth century and was active 1493-1505.

He was probably born in the Archdiocese of Cambrai, in the then under Burgundian domination County of Hainaut. In Provence it was since 1493 as " picardischer " painter known especially in Avignon and Marseille. He was, according to likewise originating from Northern France and Southern Flanders Barthélemy D Enguerrand Quarton and, the last great artists of the School of Avignon. In 1503 he married Michèle Chan Genet, daughter of the painter Jean Genet Chan, who is also regarded as the great masters of this era in Avignon. Lieferinxe 1505 is mentioned for the last time alive and died before the 1508th

Before he could be clearly identified by art historian Charles Sterling (1901-1991), Josse Lieferinxe was known as " Master of the Saint Sebastian". For the Notre- Dame-des- Accoules in Marseille in 1497, he painted the altarpiece " Saint Sébastien et contre la Saint Roch protecteurs Peste ". At the altar wall are a total of eight panel paintings, which are now scattered in several different museums.

Works

• Cycle de la vie et miracles de Saint Sébastien, 1497: Saint Sébastien face à Diocletien 1497 ( Hermitage, St. Petersburg ).
• Saint Sébastien détruisant les idoles païennes 1497 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia ).
• Martyr de Saint Sebastien, 1497, and two other paintings in the (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
• Saint Sébastien intercédant en faveur of pestiférés 1497 ( Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
• Pèlerins sur la tombe de Saint Sébastien ( Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Rome)

More wing images and other elements of the altar wall of Marseille are in the Louvre, in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Musée Calvet in Avignon.