Jehan Bellegambe

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Jehan Bellegambe or Jean Bellegambe (sometimes Belgamb or Belganb) (c. 1470 – c. June 1535/March 1536) was a French-speaking

Bellegambe was born and died in Douai, then in the county of Flanders (today in French Flanders). He was a child of the first marriage of Georges Bellegambe,^[1] a cabinetmaker and musician^[2] who was living in rue Fosset-Maugart (renamed, in 1862, rue Haute-des ferronniers).^[1] Nothing is known of Jehan de Bellegambe's artistic training. The first known mention of him is a document of 1504 which names him as a master painter.^[2] In 1528 he owned a house at the corner of rue de la Cloris and rue du Palais.

Works

His works are signed with a rebus.^[1]

• Triptych of the Lamentation of Christ (c. 1500), tempera and oil on panel, commissioned by Grégoire de Moscron and his wife Jossine, acquired in 1863 by the
  National Museum in Warsaw
  from the Johann Peter Weyer's collection.
• Triptych retable of Le Cellier (1508); showing the Cistercian abbey of Flines-lez-Raches, the porterie, the chevet and the transept.
• Retable of Saint
  Adrian of Nicomedia (1515), oil on oak panel, left panel 75 cm by 33.5 cm, acquired in 1856 by the Louvre
  . The saint is shown in three-quarter profile on foot, in armour and with a sword, standing on the city.
• Tripych of the mystic bath (1525), oil on wood, painted for
  musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille
  , restored in 1921 and 1966.
• Polyptych of Anchin, formed of 9 panels, painted for the
  Abbaye d'Anchin. Five-year restoration by the musées de France at Versailles
  . Put back on display on 6 March 2007 at the musée de la Chartreuse.
• Triptych of the
  récollets
  of Douai and for her dowry to be used to pay for a retable dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. It was presented by the Pottier family.
• Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Barbara (both 1520), Art Institute of Chicago
  , which acquired them in 1983 as part of the collection of George F. Harding.