André Beauneveu
The earliest documentary reference to "Master Andrew the Painter" (assumed to be Beauneveu) appears in the accounts of Duchess Yolande de Bar in 1359, where he is recorded as working on the decoration of a chapel in her castle at Nieppe (destroyed).In 1386 he made the move to Bourges to enter the service of one of the greatest artistic patrons of medieval Europe, the Valois Duke Jean de Berry.The style of the miniatures clearly show the influence of Jean Pucelle, whose most famous work, the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, was in the possession of the Duc de Berry by this time.This lifelike figure, with her gently curving pose, naturalistic features and direct gaze, gives a clear sense of the elegance that Froissart and his contemporaries so admired in Beauneveu's work.The English bibliophile S.C. Cockerell even claimed that Beauneveu had painted the famous 'Westminster' portrait of Richard II, based on a supposed similarity between that work and the Berry Psalter.[7] For a period, Beauneveu's supposed oeuvre was a pawn in the gentlemanly disputes (played out in the pages of the Burlington Magazine) between Cockerell, Martin Conway and Roger Fry over the origins of the French, Netherlandish and English 'schools' of late medieval art.The fact that all these speculative attributions have since been dismissed in the light of more careful scholarship[citation needed] shows the dangers of trying to apply traditional techniques of connoisseurship to the art of this period.
ValenciennesBourgesEarly NetherlandishCounty of HainautKing Charles VJean de Berry'PucellianNieppeJean FroissartJean de LiegePhilippa of HainaultWestminster account rollsValoisMehun-sur-YèvreprophetsapostlesdiptychsgrisailleforeshorteningJean PucelleHours of Jeanne d'EvreuxPhilip VIJoan of BurgundyJohn II of Francethe Abbey of St DenisCapetianChampmoleffigiesRoger de GaignièresJean de LiègeCharles V of FranceChristie'sLouis of MaleSt CatherineOnze Lieve VrouwkerkKortrijkPhilip of BurgundyClaus SluterJean de BeaumetzCount of FlandersMechelenParement de NarbonneRichard IIMartin ConwayRoger FryInternational GothicLouis IXSte ChapelleBourges CathedralSusie NashBooks of hoursJohn of BerryPetites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de BerryBelles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de BerryTrès Riches Heures du Duc de BerryJean Le NoirJacquemart de HesdinPseudo-JacquemartMaster of the Brussels InitialsMaster of the ParementLimbourg brothers