Dunois Master

The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French manuscript illuminator believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. His name comes from a book of hours made for Jean de Dunois now in the British Library (MS Yates-Thompson 3). He worked in association with the Bedford Master, in whose workshop he seems to have served; scholars consider him to be the most talented of the Bedford Master's assistants. He is usually assumed to have taken over the workshop when the Bedford Master ceased to be active, or to have set up his own with some of the artists. His style is characterized by soft modeling of forms, and a fondness for pale colors and shell gold.

• Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins Hours, late 1440s, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 3226
• Dunois Hours, Londres, British Library, Yates Thompson, ms. 3
• Simon de Varie Hours, 1455, with Jean Fouquet and Jean Rolin Master, Getty Center ms.7
• Book of hours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS McClean 81
• Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, musée Condé, ms. 860, ca 1465