Meeting of Achilles and Hector

c. 1450 - 1460

Master of Girart de Roussillon

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1450 - 1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    miniature on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.6 x 20.9 cm (4 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 47


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1947

  • The Art of France in Prints and Books, NGA, 1947, no cat.

  • A Survey of Watercolor: East and West, Old and New, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1947, no cat.

1950

  • Books of the Middle Ages, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, 1950.

1955

  • Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1955, no cat.

1956

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no cat.

1957

  • Illuminated Manuscript Pages from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1957-1958, no cat.

1960

  • Manuscript Illuminations, XIIth-XVth Century, from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1960-1961, no cat.

1965

  • Rosenwald Miniatures, NGA, 1965, no cat.

1970

  • Hoofprints: an exhibition of the horse, Monmouth Museum, Red Bank, NJ, 1970, no. 5.

1971

  • A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 40, repro.

1972

  • Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972.

1975

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 47, repro.

2009

  • Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

Bibliography

1975

  • National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 47.

2018

  • De Hamel, Christopher, and Sandra Hindman. Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018, p. 125.

Wikidata ID

Q64618171


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