FOUQUET, Jean
(b. ca. 1420, Tours, d. ca. 1480, Tours)

Flavius Josephus: The Jewish Antiquities

c. 1465
Manuscript (Ms. français 247, 2 volumes), 430 x 290 mm
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

On folio 25r, the miniature framed by an elegant rinceaux border shows the first episodes of Joseph's story in the Old Testament (Genesis, 37). The anonymous painter of this picture worked on the manuscript before Fouquet.




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