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| Keywords: Michel Colombe - Jean II, Duke of Bourbon, at Prayer - Walters 27510 - Left Side.jpg Duke Jean II the Good of Bourbon 1426-88 wearing the collar of the French order of St Michael is shown kneeling in prayer This figure may have been the work described in later documents as being accompanied by a statuette of the duke's wife kneeling Both works were placed at the base of a small stone cross on the altar of a chapel devoted to a relic of the True Cross located in the crypt of the Sainte-Chapelle at Bourbon-l'Archambault the ancestral seat of the dukes of Bourbon Colombe was an important French sculptor who worked on many commissions for the French nobility often involving portraiture to which his conservative and observant manner was well suited In his travels he was influenced by local styles; here we see the soft loose drapery associated with Burgundy Damage to the face where an artist's style can be distinctive makes a firm attribution difficult ca 1485 Renaissance limestone cm 28 5 12 8 18 accession number 27 510 34695 Found at Bourbon l'Archambault France Oscar Homberg Paris by purchase Sale Hotel Drouot Paris May 16 1908 no 677 Fauchier-Delavigne Paris 1908 by purchase Arnold Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters New York by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Sale Parke-Bernet New York May 1 1941 no 1083 Frederick A Stern New York by purchase Walters Art Museum 1944 by purchase Museum purchase formerly part of the Walters Collection 1944 place of origin Bourbon France Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Michel Colombe Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review John II of Bourbon Kneeling in prayer in art | ||||
