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Bourgot Le Noir

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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 Bourgot Le Noir, and she is not commonly known to the general art history community. However, with the existing documents mentioning her, it is known that she was an
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painter's guild records, which was found to be 12 percent female in 1454, and continued to grow to 25 percent by the later 1400s.
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Bourgot and Jean Le Noir's style closely followed the works of
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Works known to have been made by the Le Noir duo include a
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birth of painting miniatures in the sixteenth century.
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in the mid-fourteenth century who assisted her father,
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illuminator
Jean Le Noir
Bruges
Paris
John the Good
Jean, Duc de Berry
Jean Pucelle
book of hours
Bonne of Luxembourg
Charles V





Women Artists in History
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"Brooklyn Museum: Bourgot"


"The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy"
Categories
14th-century French artists
14th-century women artists
Medieval French women artists
French manuscript illuminators

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