ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author included manuscripts that encouraged the viewer to study the nature of Poyet's style by comparing it to that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and followers. In the exhibition, the work of Poyet himself was divided into four sections: early period, mature period, workshop, and lastly, a section called 'Post Poyet.' The really curious fact to emerge in the 'Post Poyet' section of the exhibition was the influence Poyet did indeed have on one particular artist called the Master of Morgan 85. Poyet's true artistic peers were only two, the Master of Anne de Bretagne, active in Paris, and Jean Bourdichon, his direct competitor working in a similar style, in the same town, at the same time, and often for the same patrons. Contact with original work by Poyet or his workshop could have been provided by the 'pseudo-Poyet,' because these two illuminators knew each other.