Currently not on view
Saint Margaret with a Lady Donor,
ca. 1405
Attributed to the Luçon Master, French, ca. 1390–1417
y1992-163
Information
Title
Saint Margaret with a Lady Donor
Dates
ca. 1405
Maker
Attributed to the Luçon Master
Medium
Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
Dimensions
18.5 x 13.6 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1992-163
Culture
Materials
Book of Hours with 12 miniatures (including this) purchased by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty at Sotheby’s, London, 20 July 1916, lot 954 (See reference Bib. 4812); broken up by Beatty; this leaf exchanged by Beatty with Dr. Yahuda in 1931; sold Sotheby’s, London, 7 Dec., 1992, lot 13 (See reference Bib. 4811); purchased by Princeton;
- Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of valuable books and illuminated and other manuscripts: comprising incunabula of the most important continental presses, early English books printed by Wynkyn de Worde ... rare works of English commerce & trade. 17-20 July 1916, London., lot 954
- Sotheby's. 1992. Western manuscripts and miniatures, sale code DOMITIAN. 7 December 1992, London., lot 13
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1992," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 1 (1993): p. 36-83., p. 82
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 349
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 121
