Maître de Dunois Illuminator/Painter 15th. century

 The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French manuscript illuminator believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. His name comes from a book of hours made for Jean de Dunois now in the British Library (Yates Thompson MS 3). He worked in association with the Bedford Master, in whose workshop he seems to have served; scholars consider him to be the most talented of the Bedford Master's assistants. He is usually assumed to have taken over the workshop when the Bedford Master ceased to be active, or to have set up his own with some of the artists. His style is characterized by soft modeling of forms, and a fondness for pale colors and shell gold. 

 

Manuscripts

• Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins Hours, late 1440s, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 3226
• Dunois Hours, London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 3
• Book of Hours of Simon de Varie, 1455, with Jean Fouquet and Jean Rolin Master. The three parts of this manuscript are KB 74 G37, KB 74 G37a and Getty Center Ms. 7
• Book of hours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS McClean 81
• Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, musée Condé, ms. 860, ca 1465

 

Avarice. ‘The Dunois Hours’, France ca. 1440-1450. British Library, Yates Thompson 3, fol. 174r
 Unknown author - Created: circa 1440

Heures de Dunois - BL YatesThompson3 f1 - Jean comte de Dunois

Dunois Master -Created: between circa 1440 and circa 1450

 

Heures de Dunois - BL YatesThompson3 f32v - Jugement dernier 

Dunois Master -Created: between circa 1440 and circa 1450

 

La Trinité aux chanoines de Notre-Dame de Paris - ENSBA

Dunois Master - Created: circa 15th century

 

Lady holding the coat of arms of Simon de Varie - Book of hours Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 - 025r randfig 1 Dunois Master - Created: 1455
 

 Last Judgment from the Dunois Hours

 Heures de Dunois - BL YatesThompson3 f32v - Jugement dernier.Created: between circa 1440 and circa 1450 

Maria Lactans, angels crowning and making music - miniature from folio 017v from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 Topics depicted in this miniature Mary sitting or enthroned, the christ-child in front of her, sitting in her lap (or in front of her bosom) (11F4212) Christ-child suckling, or beginning to suckle, e.g. mary uncovering her breast ~ madonna-representations (11F726) Angels singing, making music (11G21) Angels crowning and/or bringing palm-branches (11G23) Crown (symbol of sovereignty) (44B191) Organ (48C7334) This miniature is part of folio 017v  Dunois Master - Created: 1455

Mary sitting on the ground, reads to the Christ-child - miniature from folio 012r from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 Topics depicted in this miniature This miniature is part of folio 012r  Dunois Master - Created: 1455

Martyrdom of Apollonia - Heures de Dunois - BL Yates Thompson 3 fol. 284v  Dunois Master    Created:  circa 1440-1450

Martyrdom of St Apollonia from the Coëtivy Hours. Latin. Paris, 1443-1445. Chester Beatty Library. W 082 f.298r      Attributed to Dunois Master    Created: from 1443 until 1445

 

Martyrdom of St Mark the Evangelist. Latin. Paris, 1443-1445. Chester Beatty Library W 082, f.270r Attributed to Dunois Master - Created: from 1443 until 1445

Stoning of St Stephen from the Coëtivy Hours. Latin. Paris, 1443-1445. Chester Beatty Library W 082 f.275 

 Attributed to Dunois Master - Created: from 1443 until 1445

The Annunciation - Gabriel announces Christ's birth to Mary - miniature from folio 025r from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 Topics depicted in this miniature God the father as bearded old man, usually with crown or tiara or sceptre and/or globe (11C23) Holy ghost represented as a dove (in flames) (11E1) Codex - ll - codex open (49LL72) Lectern ~ reading (49N21) The annunciation: mary standing - aa - mary to the left, the angel to the right (+ god the father) (73AA521(+11)) The annunciation: mary standing - aa - mary to the left, the angel to the right (+ holy ghost (as dove)) (73AA521(+13)) This miniature is part of folio 025r      Dunois Master - Created: 1455

The Nativity - the adoration of the Christ-child by Mary and St. Joseph - miniature from folio 066r from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 Topics depicted in this miniature Herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. (47I221) Adoration of the christ-child by mary and joseph (73B23) The ox and the ass at the manger ~ christ's birth (+ variant) (73B281(+0)) This miniature is part of folio 066r  Dunois Master - Created: 1455

The Virgin and Child with a kneeling Jean Comte de Dunois in armour. (British Library, British Library, Yates Thompson 3 f. 22v)

The Visitation - Mary, accompanied by a maid carrying a book, meets St. Elisabeth - Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37, folio 053r

 

Virgin and Child from the Coëtivy Hours. Latin. Paris, 1443-1445. Chester Beatty Library W 082, f.222v

Attributed to Dunois Master - Created: from 1443 until 1445