Jehan Bellegambe

Jehan Bellegambe (or Jean Bellegambe) painter (Birth 1470 - Death 1534)

Called the Master of the Colors, it painted many religious paintings, triptychs, polyptyques whose principal ones are preserved at Douai, Arras, Aix, Lille, Saint-Pétersbourg Art Institute off Chicago

Retable of the Storeroom

  • 1508 represents the Cistercian abbey of Flines-lez-Raches portery; the bedside and the transpet

Retable of Saint Adrien de Nicomédie

  • 1515 oil-base paint on oak; left side panel height 75 cm width 33.5cm; asset in 1856 and preserved since by the museum of Louvre department of paintings.
The saint is represented in foot with armor, of three quarters with sword with a bottom in landscape of city.

Tripyque " The bath mystique"

  • 1525 Carried out for the abbot Charles Coguin oil-base paint on wood, height 81 cm with inscriptions of the weapons of the Abbey of Anchin,
Asset in 1882 and preserved by the museum of the Art schools of Lille. Restored in 1921 and 1966.

Polyptyque d' Anchin

Constituted of 9 panels it was carried out for the Abbaye of Anchin, this rich iconographic whole of témoinages. It was the subject of five years of restoration by the department conservation-restoration of the museums of France with Versailles. It returned in exposure on March 6th, 2007 to the museum of Chartreuse.

Triptych of the Immaculate Conception

1525 Alderman of Douai since 1516 Jean Pottier with his very sick Marguerite daughter. She wishes being buried in the vault of the récollets Wallons of Douai and utiiliser her dowry to the realization of a retable dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The Pottier family is introduced

Holy Catherine of Alexandria

Holy Barbara

External bonds

  • Jehan Bellegambe in Artcyclopedia
  • Bond insecula

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