The Master of Saint Giles was apparently active in Paris in the years around 1500. He is named from the two paintings in the Collection, which show episodes from the life of Saint Giles. These panels are related to two others (now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington), showing episodes from the life of a Bishop Saint and the baptism of Clovis. The four panels probably formed part of an altarpiece and are notable for the views they contain of sites in and near Paris.
The painter is evidently Netherlandish by training, but may have been of either French or Netherlandish origin.
Master of Saint Giles
active about 1500
Paintings by Master of Saint Giles
A deer cowers in the protective arms of an elderly man; an arrow sticks out of his hand, which rests on the deer’s back. A richly dressed man and a cleric kneel before him; a group of hunters crowd behind them. The wounded man is Saint Giles, a popular French saint who was mistakenly shot when hu...
Not on display
This panel is one of four surviving fragments of a large altarpiece that showed the lives of various French saints, many with royal connections. Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, kneels beside an altar at which a priest is performing Mass. At the top an angel flies down from heaven with a divine p...
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