Jacquemart de Hesdin

Jacquemart de Hesdin (c. 1355 – c. 1414) was a French miniature painter working in the International Gothic style.

The Très Belles Heures du Duc de Berry [fr] (sometimes called the Brussels Hours, from the city where it has long been kept)[9] is chiefly the work of Jacquemart.

The book is described in an inventory of Berry's library dated 1402:[1] Unes très belles heures richement enluminées et ystoriées de la main Jacquemart de Odin.The Très Belles Heures disappeared for several hundred years, but the scholarly consensus is that the manuscript in the Bibliothèque Royale at Brussels is the one described in the 1402 inventory.

Millard Meiss suggests that at least five painters worked on the book's illuminations, Jacquemart and four unidentified artists.

[12] According to Anne Granboulan, Jacquemart "...manifests a certain mastery in the representation of space, thus showing that he had suitably assimilated the lesson of Siena".

[3] The Columbia Encyclopedia (sixth edition) notes that Jacquemart was influenced by Sienese painting, and his work "...included elaborate architectural interiors used to place figures in a believable space".