BOUCICAUT MASTER

Artist: Boucicaut Master
- Illuminated manuscript.
Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
All Saints - 1415 |
- Boucicaut Master was an anonymous French or Flemish miniaturist and illuminator.
- He was active between 1400 and 1430 in Paris and worked in the International Gothic style.
- He appears to have supervised a talented team of artists who produced manuscripts commissioned by the king of France, high-ranking aristocrats, and the wealthy bourgeoisie.
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He is named after his illustrated book of hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut, Marshal of France, created between 1410 and 1415, now in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris.
(Wikipedia)
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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes..
Shakespeare

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