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Bourgot helps pave the way for future women artists by participating in her field. With women becoming more active in the art community, the number of women in the painters' guild in Bruges shot to 25 percent of artists overall in the 1400s. Furthermore, the extent of this field helped continue the
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that collaborated with Jean Le Noir, her father, to illustrate manuscripts in the mid-fourteenth century. Bourgot Le Noir was taught to paint by her father and was employed in his shop. Their work included prayer books, books of hours, and other illuminations. Later in her illuminating career,
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While it is impossible to discern which hands created each individual work, it is very plausible that
Bourgot's work is interspersed with her father's. The collaboration of father and daughter is significant and marks the beginning of an increase of women in the
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Little is known about the personal life of
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