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Master of the Parement de Narbonne
( fl last third of the 14th century). Painter and illuminator, active in France. He is named after the Parement de Narbonne (Paris, Louvre; see fig.), a large drawing in black ink on white silk (samite) found in Narbonne at the beginning of the 19th century. It shows, primarily, scenes of the Passion and was, most probably, the table d’en haut, to be suspended above and behind the altar, from a chapelle of hangings and vestments used to decorate a chapel during Lent. The early provenance of the work is uncertain: the portraits of the King of France, Charles V (d 1380), and his wife Joanna of Bourbon (d 1378) and the monogram K in the border prove that it was a royal commission. Its presence in Narbonne was the only reason for believing it to be a gift from the sovereign to the Cathedral of St Just, Narbonne, which housed the tomb of the entrails of Philip III (d 1285). No documentary evidence records such a donation or the presence of the Parement in the Cathedral.
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