GUERARD Grégoire Active between Champagne and... Lot 28

GUERARD Grégoire Active between Champagne and Burgundy from 1512 to 1538. Saint Catherine of Alexandria Oil on panel. Walnut. Caption around the halo: KATHERINA VIRGINUS. Bottom left: the coat of arms of the Vienne - Dinteville family. On the reverse: Saint Christopher and the baby Jesus. Grisailles (lacks and accidents in the background and the lower part; spots) H.: 91 cm - W.: 54,8 cm Bibliography : 1 - Painting in Dijon in the 16th century. Mathieu Gilles. Three new panels by Grégoire Guérard, reproduced pp. 198 - 201 (Silvana Editoriale 2016). For Mathieu Gilles the blazon, mi part: to the dexter, Gules an eagle Or, and to the sinister quarterly, Azure a lion passant guardant Or on 1 & 4, and Azure a cross Or, between ten - eight billets Or on 2 & 3, "is that of the Vienne, one of the most important Burgundian families associated with the Dinteville family". The author specifies: "One finds exactly the same blazon on the heraldic tapestries of the castle of Commarin, ordered to celebrate the marriage in 1500 of Girard de Vienne (1470 ? - 1545), adviser and chamberlain of François I, lord among others of Ruffey, Commarin and Bouze (undoubtedly Bouze -Lès - Beaune), with Bénigne de Dinterville" (pp. 200 - 201). Er, p.136 - 137 (Silvana Editoriale 2016) 2 - Frédéric Elsig, Painting in Dijon in the 16th century. II. Under Francis I, pp. 136 -137 (Silvana Editoriale 2016) 3 - Frédéric Elsig, Grégoire Guérard, reproduced p.51, figs. 98 & 99; no. I. 29 of the catalogue, p. 133, where both sides of the panel are reproduced side by side (Silvana Editoriale 2017). The author states that this double-sided panel "obviously constitutes the right-hand side of a triptych whose other elements are unknown to us to this day". He hypothesizes that this triptych, commissioned by Girard de Vienne and his wife Bénigne de Dintevil