Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes, active 1404-1410

found: French painting in the time of Jean de Berry : the Limbourgs and their contemporaries, 1974:v. 1, p. 373 (Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes; Cleres Femmes Master; active during at least the first decade of the 15th century, apparently in Paris; named after a manuscript of Boccaccio's Cleres et noble femmes received by Jean de Berry in Feb. 1404 (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 598); his hand cannot be recognized with any assurance in the years towards 1410, although versions of his style may be found until 1415 or even later; although called the Master of 1402 by Martens (in Meister Francke), the work described in Martens as by the Master of 1402 is by two quite different masters, the Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes and the Coronation Master)

found: La peinture médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500, 1987:v. 1, p. 274 (Maître des Claires femmes de Jean de Berry; Maître des Claires femmes du duc de Berry; the artist Martens (in Meister Francke) named the 'Maître de 1402' Meiss separated into the Maître du Couronnement de la Vierge and the Maître des Claires femmes de Jean de Berry)

found: La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, Duc de Bourgogne (1364-1404), 1985:p. 101 (Maître des Cleres femmes de Jean de Berry)

found: Dict. of art, 1996:v. 20, p. 629 (Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes; fl. 1403-15; name associated with south Netherlandish or German workshop of illuminators, active in Paris; name coined by Meiss)

found: Union list of artist names, June 20, 2000(Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes; active ca. 1404-1415; Netherlandish illuminator)