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Crucifixion. Folio from a breviary or missal

Juan de Carrión [attributed to] [workshop of] (Documented in the last third of the 15th century)

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Object history

This folio probably belonged to a breviary or a missal. Saulnier (1982) ascribed this piece to the corpus of Juan de Carrión, since it has many similarities with the Cantorales of the cathedral of Avila. Likewise, in a private collection in Trieste and in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, two other folios are preserved that also belonged to the same volume. In fact, the one in Paris is signed "Johan de Carrió" (Saulnier, 1982).

The workshop of Juan de Carrión was located in Segovia (Villaseñor, 2009), so the folio was made in that locality. However, it is not known where it was, although if we take into account the locations of the rest of the manuscripts made by the workshop, it is plausible to think that it was somewhere in the provinces of Avila and Segovia.

It is not known when the piece left Castilla y León, it is possible that, as happened with other codices from Juan de Carrión's workshop, it was taken after the disentailment. In any case, at the beginning of the 20th century it was purchased by Jean Masson, an avid collector of rare books and incunabula. Masson decided to donate part of his collection to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on February 21, 1925, where the piece still remains.

Description

The folio depicts the Crucifixion of Christ, who is flanked by two angels who collect his blood in two chalices. The scene is completed by the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, St. John the Evangelist, Joseph of Arimathea and a servant (Villaseñor, 2009). The vegetal decoration of the margins is reminiscent of other works from Juan de Carrión's workshop, such as the Cantorales of the cathedral of Ávila or the Book of the Knight Zifar.

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• Mid XV^th c. - Early XX^th c.

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  Possible origin from Castile and Leon, Castilla y León (Spain)

• Early XX^th c. - ca. 1925

  private collection

  Jean Masson, Amiens (France) *

• ca. 1925 - present

  study center

  École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (France)