Getty Museum acquires Flemish manuscript
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Fol. 10v: Simon Bening, The Author in His Study - From the Livre des fais de Jacques de Lalaing by Jean Lefèvre de Saint-Remy (and others).
Burgundian Netherlands, ca. 1530-40. Photo courtesy The Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced last week the acquisition of the Livre des fais de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a highly important illuminated manuscript comprising text by Jean Lefèvre de Saint-Remy and a frontispiece by Simon Bening, the leading Flemish painter of the period.