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Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit Prints
About Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit
Loyset Liédet was a Flemish manuscript illuminator, born around 1420, who was active from about 1454 until the early 1480s. He came from Hesdin, in Artois, where he worked for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the 1450s. By 1468 he was living in Bruges and belonged to the city's guild of Saint John the Evangelist, and he last appears in records in Lille in 1483 to 1484, with his brother Huchon. Pol Fruit was an illuminator who worked with Liédet on some of his commissions. Almost nothing else is recorded about him.
Liédet ran a sizable workshop that produced richly illustrated history books and romances for the Burgundian court and its nobles. Early on he was influenced by the painter Simon Marmion. His crowded, colorful scenes of battles, sieges, ceremonies and journeys bring medieval chivalric stories to life. His best-known project is the Histoire de Charles Martel, a romance about the Frankish ruler, written out in 1463 to 1465 and illuminated around 1467 to 1472. Two of its volumes are in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, and leaves cut from it, credited to Liédet and Pol Fruit, are in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit prints: reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages by the Flemish illuminators Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit from the Histoire de Charles Martel, a romance made for the Burgundian court around 1467. The collection includes The Coronation of Pepin, The Abduction of Ydoire and Fromont de Lens Leaving Bordeaux and the Battle against the Army of Gasgogne, all from about 1467.
This selection comes from one illustrated history book and shows the subjects the Liédet workshop painted most: a coronation, an abduction and a battle. Each page is crowded with knights, horses, banners and townsfolk in fifteenth-century dress, set before castles and city walls. The colors are bright and the scenes are full of action.
The lively court and battle scenes suit libraries, studies, dining rooms and family rooms, and the three pages hang well together as a set. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
