Collections publiques de Liège

The city of Liège possesses a little-known collection of paintings from the 15th and early 16th centuries by masters who were active in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Southern Netherlands.

Dominique Allart, professor at the University of Liège, has devoted herself with rigor and expertise to the scientific study of the forty-three paintings that make up this collection. The Virgin with Child and Butterfly, an exceptional painting attributed to the Liège school and which served as the epitaph of Pierre van der Meulen, Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral, is the subject of her most recent study. The Virgin with Child and a Donor, a renowned work by the Master of the View of Saint Gudula, was also subject to a thorough and complete examination.

New photos taken for this book along with some unpublished technical documents enrich the photographic imagery within the book. In addition, several paintings by anonymous masters are studied, whose activity extends to the 1530s, including the production of artists who worked in the environment of Hieronymus Bosch, Joos van Cleve, the Master of the Holy Blood, Ambrosius Benson, and Pieter Coecke from Aalst.