Resumen de Le Maître de la "Légende dorée" de Munich, unémule du Maître de Bedford: collaborations et indépendance d'un enlumineur parisien entre 1420 et 1450
The Munich "Golden Legend" Master, an Disciple of the Bedford Master: Collaborations and Independence of a Parisian Illuminator between 1420 and 1450.
Illuminator active in Paris, and most probably in Rouen, in the 1420s until the decade of 1450-1460, the Munich "Golden Legend" Master is, with the Dunois Master, the best documented satellite of the Bedford Master. Among a corpus of 48 codices, of which 41 are books of hours, brought together around him, 25 are collaborative manuscripts.
After a reminder of the history of the corpus, this study tackles the different types of collaborations between the Munich "Golden Legend" Master and his contemporaries. The first criterion taken into account is the quantitative part he took in the decoration of the manuscripts, whatever the notoriety of the other painter or painters with whom he collaborated. The 227 miniatures of the artist's eponymous manuscript, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Gall. 3, pose the question of the repartition of hands within a given miniature, while the several recurring iconographical elements provide clues for attributing or not a miniature to the painter, or at least to the workshop he directed.
Thus the idea of workshop, understood as unity of production endowed with an headcount of several people, and situated in a shop, can establish the link between the terms -which usage is always delicate- of hand and of style.
