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-3- number, and held office in the guild seven times. Pierre Fierret joined the Guild of St. Luke in Tournay in 1483. While still working in Bruges in 1474 he had made the cartoons for the Life of the Virgin tapestries of Beaune, which were ordered by Jean Rolin, son of Chancellor Nicolas Rolin. From 1480 on he evidently resided in Tournay, because we find him in that year admitting to the Magistrate of that city that he owed 40 ecus to Antoine Pietre, a painter of Lille, for some work that they had done together in Lille. Fierret was living at that time in the Parish of St. Quentin. Masters from other cities frequently were admitted to the guild on moving to a new center for several years, as they had to prove their worth. In 1498 he became a parishioner of St. Jacques. He took four apprentices: Christoflin de le Merre who entered his studio sometime after 1485 after having been in the studio of Jacques Froidure; his son Antoine Fierret in 1488; a second son in 1496 and in 1498 Arnoul Bleyart, son of a master tapestry weaver. Pierre must have had high standing as a painter in Tournay for in 1498 the Augustins of the Parish of St. Jacques commissioned him to paint a retable for the high altar with wings containing five panels. Both this Hercules and the set of the Life of the Virgin of Beaune sustain this reputation. The drawing is competent and sure, the hands being especially shapely and convincing for this period. The action too is dramatic and certain but always managed with instinctive regard for the necessities of decoration. Quite aside from its literary and historical interest and its obvious beauty, the piece is of supreme importance as a document in the history of both the art and industry of tapestry and, since Fierret painted altar pieces also, in the history of South Flemish paintings. Documents in the history of both these arts are so rare every additional authenticated piece is of great value. (SIGNED) PHYLLIS ACKERMAN.
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