Jehan Bellegambe

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Jehan Bellegambe or Jean Bellegambe (sometimes Belgamb or Belganb) (ca. 1470  ca. June 1535–March 1536) was a French-speaking Flemish painter of religious paintings, triptychs and polyptychs, the most important of which are now held at Douai, Arras, Aix, Lille, Saint Petersburg and Chicago. He was known as the 'master of colours' for the transparency and interplay of his colours. He is known as Jehan Bellegambe the elder to distinguish him from his descendents who were also called Jehan.[1]

Life

Bellegambe was born and died in Douai, then in the county of Flanders (today in French Flanders). He was a child of the first marriage of Georges Bellegambe,[1] a cabinetmaker and musician[2] who was living in rue Fosset-Maugart (renamed, in 1862, rue Haute-des ferronniers).[1] Nothing is known of Jehan de Bellegambe's artistic training. The first known mention of him is a document of 1504 which names him as a master painter.[2] In 1528 he owned a house at the corner of rue de la Cloris and rue du Palais.

Works

His works are signed with a rebus.[1]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 A. Preux (see bibliography)
  2. 1 2 Turner 1996, vol. 3: 641.
  3. Jean Bellegambe : le peintre du tableau polyptyque d'Anchin, by Alphonse Wauters, published by E. Devroye en 1862 - archived at the université Harvard and available on Google Books

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