ROUSE ILLUM. 1
THE SPANISH FORGER, MINIATURE. SPAIN, S. XIX

A miniature by the Spanish Forger, an anonymous but active late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist whose illuminations have become collectors’ items themselves in the years since the Pierpont Morgan Library exhibition and catalog by William Voelkle devoted to this painter in 1978.

The Spanish Forger frequently painted on pieces of old parchment cut from the lower margins of large liturgical manuscripts. Here he depicts a noble-woman, seated and receiving gifts.

R. H. & M.A. Rouse Illum. 1