File:William de Brailes - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes - Walters W106 - Bottom Interior Open.jpg

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Léon Gruel: Bible Pictures by William de Brailes   (  )
Artist	Rhenish Léon Gruel  (–1923)      Description French book binder and author Date of birth/death 1841 7 November 1923  Location of birth/death Cannes Work location Paris  Authority file : Q18115138 VIAF: 10006517 ISNI: 000000011437698X ULAN: 500056026 LCCN: nr94004085 Open Library: OL6977376A WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q18115138
Title	Bible Pictures by William de Brailes
Description	English: Walters manuscript W.106 is an exquisite volume comprising twenty-four leaves of Bible Pictures by W. de Brailes, an English artist active in Oxford in the middle of the 13th century. Seven leaves from the same set of images are now in the Musee Marmottan in Paris. These 31 leaves are all that remain of an image cycle that once contained at least 98 miniatures, and which was the longest cycle of Bible miniatures surviving from the 13th century in England. In all probability these Bible Pictures were actually prefatory matter to a Psalter, now in Stockholm, National Museum, Ms. B.2010. De Brailes also composed and wrote the captions that accompany many of the images. W. de Brailes is one of only two English artists of the 13th century whose name we can associate with surviving works. Eleven manuscripts have been indentified that contain miniatures in his hand. De Brailes has a quirky and chatty style, and he was extremely gifted at turning Bible Stories into paint.
Date	circa 1250 date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (Middle Ages era QS:P2348,Q12554 )
Medium	ink and pigment on parchment bound between shaped millboard, covered in worn red velvet with ivory
Dimensions	Folio height: 13.2 cm (5.1 in); width: 9.5 cm (3.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,13.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,9.5U174728 ; Box height: 15.5 cm (6.1 in); width: 12.3 cm (4.8 in); depth: 4.4 cm (1.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,15.56U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,12.38U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,4.45U174728 ; Ivory plaque height: 8 cm (3.1 in); width: 5 cm (1.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,5U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	W.106
Place of creation	Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Object history	Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas] 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the 10th to the Early 15th Centuries. University Art Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley. 1963. Medieval Art, 1060-1550. University Art Gallery, South Bend. 1974. Splendor in Books. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Grolier Club, New York. 1977-1978. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985. Jewish Heroes in Christian Books. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1986. The Nativity in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987-1988. From Romanesque to Gothic: Illumination in Transition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990. Royalty in Medieval Miniatures. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1992. The Bible Before Luther. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1992-1993. Bookish Business: Henry Walters and Leon Gruel. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993. Manuscript Sleuthing: Discoveries of a Curator. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995. To Hell and Back: Medieval Images of the Afterworld. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995. Mything Persons: Historic Figures in Legends of East and West. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Academy of the Arts, Easton, Easton; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown. 2002.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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