Enguerrand quarton biography of william hill

French painter

Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (c. – c. ) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting.

Six paintings by him are documented, of which only two survive, and in addition the Louvre now follows most art historians in attributing to him the famous Avignon Pietà.

STERLING, CHARLES: Enguerrand Quarton.

His two documented works are the remarkable Coronation of the Virgin (–54, Villeneuve-les-Avignon) and The Virgin of Mercy (, Musée Condé, Chantilly). Two smaller altarpieces are also attributed to him.

Life and career

Quarton was born in the diocese of Laon in northern France, but moved to Provence in , possibly after working in the Netherlands.

There he worked in Aix-en-Provence, Arles in , and Avignon, where he was based from until his death there in about Provence at this time had some of the most impressive