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Lot 1 - Attributed to the Associate of the Missal Master Arcimboldi Annunciation Historiated initial D, taken from a choir book. Tempera and liquid gold, on parchment. Italy, Lombardy (Brescia or Mantua (?)), circa 1492-1495. Miniature mounted on a cardboard support. 20.8 x 19 cm Set against a classical, humanist architectural backdrop of bluish landscape, with a majestic peacock perched on a low wall, this Annunciation shows the angel Gabriel rushing towards the Virgin kneeling before a prie-Dieu. The light, careful compositional perspective and pastel palette lend a softness and elegance to this illuminated historiated initial. Dating from the late Quattrocento, this monumental illumination is most certainly taken from a choir book (gradual or antiphonary). This beautiful miniature is similar to a group of historiated initials attributed to an anonymous master, a close associate of the painter of the Arcimboldi Missal (Milan, Bibl. Capitolare, MS. II.D.I.13). This artist, baptized "Associate of the Master of the Arcimboldi Missal", was studied by Suida (1947) and seems to have worked in Brescia or the surrounding area. He is influenced, even in his architecture and treatment of checkerboard paving, by Milanese artists of the previous generation, such as Cristoforo de Predis. We know of a small group of historiated initials, taken from the same choir book, which show similarities to our Annunciation in the treatment of the figures and the palette. There is a first group of nineteen known initials, for a time in the Rodophe Kann collection, which feature related figures and strokes (Paris, 1907; see the survey and locations in P. Kidd, Illuminated Leaves and Cuttings From the Collection of Rodolphe Kann, see link below). Although the present Annunciation is not one of the miniatures in the Kann collection, there are obvious stylistic comparisons, starting with the lettering, with pastel motifs and palette (notably the violet/mauve of the lettering with pearl motifs and green and pink acanthus foliage). Remains of a blue baguette can be seen on the left side of the Annunciation: a historiated initial featuring Saint John the Baptist (former Burke Collection, San Francisco, now Stanford University, M2223) has this same blue baguette extended. Some related initials are in the Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, M 6103-6105. An overview of known initials is provided by C. Quattrini in Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani secoli IX-XVI, ed. M. Bollati, Milan, 2004, pp. 619-620. See Suida, W., "Italian Miniatures Paintings from the Rodolphe Kann Collection?", in Art in America 35 (1947), pp. 26-27. Bergamo and Brescia, Tesori miniati, codici ed incunaboli dai fondi antichi di Bergamo e Brescia, exp. cat. 1995. P. Kidd https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2021/04/illuminated-leaves-and-cuttings-from.html This drawing is presented jointly with Madame Marianne Aveline, 40, rue Gay-Lussac 75005 Paris.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR