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TROYAN SCHOOL circa 1520 - Triptych with La Flagellation, Le…
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TROYAN SCHOOL circa 1520 - Triptych with La Flagellation, Le…
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TROYAN SCHOOL circa 1520 - Triptych with La Flagellation, Le Christ aux anges, La Résurrection - Three oak panels, three boards, not parqueted, in a single mount - 63.5 x 50 cm each - 83.5 x 193 cm overall - Inscribed at bottom centre of central panel L'hôme partant - Wax stamp on reverse J.A - Crack in the panel - - Provenance: - Saint-Etienne church in Troyes (according to the 1864 exhibition) - - Julien Gréau collection - - H. Gréau collection in 1939 - - Gréau sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Mes Walther et Ader), 25 February 1939, no. 27, reproduced (like the Bernard van Orley school, is thought to have come from Troyes and to have formed the altarpiece known as the Jacobins). - Exhibition: - Objets d'art anciens et œuvres de peinture, de dessin, de sculpture, exposés à l'Evêché et au musée de Troyes, Troyes, musée, 1864, no. 306. - Bibliography: - Catalogue des objets d'art anciens et des œuvres de peinture, de dessin, de sculpture, exposés à l'Evêché et au Musée, Troyes, 1864, n°306 (L'homme parfait). - Troyes painting is a school in its own right, closely linked both to the dynasties of local painters - among whom the Cordonnier family occupies a prominent place - and to the art of stained glass, which flourished in Troyes during the Renaissance. The first third of the 16th century was marked by the work of two now-identified masters: the Master of Clairvaux and the Master of the Legend of the Santa Casa. Their work was characterised by an original reinterpretation of Flemish and Dutch models, adapted to the tastes and clients of the Champagne region. - Our painting belongs to this period - its style, close to that of Grégoire Guérard and the Master of Clairvaux, is in keeping with a Trojan production influenced by Nordic models. The Master of Clairvaux was inspired by painters such as Gérard David and Jan Joest. - Several figures in our triptych can be compared with works by Grégoire Guérard, such as the Resurrection in a private collection (see F. Elsig, Grégoire Guérard, Milan, 2017, reproduced fig.101), or the Assumption of the Virgin in the Musée de Vauluisant in Troyes (see opus quoted above, reproduced pl. 11). - Furthermore, the slender morphology of the figures and the meticulous treatment of the decorative elements - in particular the rock at the centre of The Resurrection - are in keeping with an aesthetic close to that of the Master of Saint-Rémy, of which the Ascension in the church of Saint-Rémy in Troyes is a particularly significant example (see Peindre à Troyes au XVIe siècle, edited by F. Elsig, Milan, 2015, reproduced in fig. 140). The Gothic inscription and the soldiers' clothing support the idea of a date of around 1520-1530: sleeves with slits were very common in Western Europe at this time, under Germanic influence. This influence can be explained by the prolonged Germanic presence in Troyes thanks to the Champagne fairs, which welcomed foreign, mainly German, merchants. - The triptych was probably an Antependium (altar frontal) that adorned the altar of the church of Saint-Etienne in Troyes, according to the 1864 exhibition at the Musée de Troyes. At this exhibition, most of the loans came from the same collection: that of Julien Gréau. It was described on this occasion by Alfred Darcel: "This collection is almost a museum, as all branches and periods of art are represented in it, from the Egyptians to the present day [...] the paintings range from fragments torn from the walls of Pompeii to works from the 18th century" (see A. Darcel, "Troyes et ses expositions d'art", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, n°17, 1864 p. 338). - Born in Troyes in 1810 to a wealthy Champagne family, Julien Gréau was an industrialist but above all a great collector and enthusiast of Antiquity and the art of the Middle Ages. He built up several collections over the course of his life, dispersing each one to focus on a new area of interest. The most important part of his collection concerned antique glassware, enamelware and pottery, comprising five thousand pieces. His Greek, Gallic and French medals were sold in 1867, followed by his Roman medals in 1869, his antique bronzes in 1885, and finally his Greek terracottas in 1891 (the latter bought in large numbers by the Louvre). - - Expert: René MILLET (visible at the expert's home by appointment)
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