Meeting of Achilles and Hector
c. 1450 - 1460
Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1450 - 1470
Master of Girart de Roussillon
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
miniature on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 11.6 x 20.9 cm (4 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1946.21.9
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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