Assistants
Artists
The Master of the Grandes Heures and the Master of the Coronation Book of Charles V shared the work on the 128 small miniatures with assistants. One of them contributed images to quire 17, including an Adoration of the Magi on a leaf (fol. 128v) whose conjoint leaf contains an Annunciation by the Master of the Grandes Heures (fol. 121r). Quire 35, to which both the Master of the Grandes Heures and the Master of the Coronation Book of Charles V contributed, contains small miniatures by other assistants. This quire illustrates the all-hands-on-deck approach that was probably adopted towards the end of the first campaign.
Adoration of the Magi (Votive Mass for Epiphany)
This miniature was painted by an assistant of the Master of the Grandes Heures. Infrared imaging (see ‘Layers’) highlights the differences with the treatment of the same subject by the Master of the Grandes Heures (fol. 102r). The expert draughtsmanship of the large miniature on fol. 102r contrasts with the shaky underdrawing of this small image. It was painted on the last leaf of quire 17 whose conjoint leaf at the start (fol. 121r) has an Annunciation by the Master of the Grandes Heures. This confirms the close collaboration between Master and assistant.