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BELLEGAMBE, Jean

BELLEGAMBE, Jean The Retable of Le Cellier (triptych) oil painting on canvas
The Retable of Le Cellier (triptych)
Painting ID::  18868
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BELLEGAMBE, Jean The Retable of Le Cellier (triptych) oil painting on canvas



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  BELLEGAMBE, Jean
  Flemish painter (c. 1480 - c. 1535) South Netherlandish painter and designer. His father, George Bellegambe, a cabinetmaker and musician, was a prominent citizen of Douai. Jean is first mentioned in a document of 1504, when he is referred to as a master painter, a burgher and married. His teacher is unknown, but his work bears some imprint of the art of Jan Provoost, who inherited Simon Marmion's studio. However, Bellegambe might equally have been apprenticed in Bruges or Brussels (possibly in the atelier of the Master of the Legend of St Mary Magdalen, for example), or even in Antwerp. The calm and serenity of Bellegambe's compositions, his treatment of landscape, his lightness of technique, his pursuit of clear, soft colours and delicate harmonies all indicate links with the work of Gerard David and Quinten Metsys. In the 17th century Bellegambe was known as 'the Master of Colours'.
  The Retable of Le Cellier (triptych)
  inner-right panel featuring St. Malachy O\'Morgair & Cistercian Monks, 1508-09, tempera and oil on panel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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