BEAUNEVEU, André
(b. ca. 1330, Valenciennes, d. 1402, Bourges)

Gisant Portrait of Charles V

c. 1375
Stone
Abbey Church, Saint-Denis

For his tomb in Saint-Denis, Charles V commissioned the Flemish master André Beauneveu to execute the gisant, or reclining portrait, for the lid of the sarcophagus.




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