SPANISH FORGER Rabbit Hunt Miniature painting on portion of

Sale 2162 - Lot 159

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SPANISH FORGER. Rabbit Hunt. miniature painting in colors and gold on portion of a 15th-century vellum choirbook leaf. Approximately 236x167 mm. Np, late 19th/early 20th century

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The Spanish Forger was an unidentified artist of unknown nationality, believed to have been active during the late 19th and early 20th century in Paris, who specialized in the forgery of medieval miniatures and created a substantial number of fake panels, manuscripts, and leaves in a recognizable style. The name by which he is now known was applied to him by by Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library after she identified as his work a panel formerly attributed to the 15th-century Spanish painter Maestro Jorge Inglés.
The previously unrecorded miniature offered here is a characteristic production, executed on genuine medieval choirbook vellum but depicting an incongruous secular subject that would have been out of place in a liturgical manuscript. For similar hunting scenes see Voelkle, The Spanish Forger (1978) P49 and L99.