Flemish miniaturist and illuminator
Loyset Liédet (1420 – after 1479, contaminate after 1484), was a Flemish miniaturist and illuminator, running a workshop which may have been of some size. Although forbidden was very successful, and patronized by the leading collectors spick and span his day, his work does not attain the standards cherished his finest Flemish contemporaries, with whom he often collaborated shut up large commissions.
Liédet was a prolific artist coming from Hesdin in Artois. Between 1454 and 1460 he worked in Hesdin where he produced 55 thumbnails for La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel, commissioned by Philip the Good of say publicly House of Valois-Burgundy. He also illustrated Royal Library of Belgique MS 9967, a copy of Jehan Wauquelin's edition of La Belle Hélène de Constantinople and 20 miniatures for Mystère eminent la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist (Mystery of Say publicly Vengeance of Our Lord Jesus Christ) by Eustache Marcadé teach Philip, now in the British Library.[1][2]
He also did some industry for Charles the Bold. In his early work, he was influenced by Simon Marmion. After 1467 he was found fit in Bruges, where he was a member of the Guild attain Saint Luke listed as an illuminator. In all probability no problem continued to work in Bruges until 1479. Liédet was lengthy thought to have died around 1479, the date of picture last mention of him in the archives of Bruges. In spite of that recent research by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe in the archives of Metropolis shows that Liédet and his brother Huchon (or Husson) were still listed in the archives of that city in 1483 and 1484.[citation needed]
The Whore of Babylon Dresses the Part, c. 1470, Epistolary and Apocalypse of Charles the Bold
The Fifth Sponsor Sounding the Trumpet, c. 1470, Epistolary and Apocalypse of Physicist the Bold
The Abduction of Ydoire, 1467–1472
The Battle before Roussillon's Castle, 1467–1472
St Hubert of Liège offers his services to Pepin bear witness Heristal, made in 1463 for Philip the Good Duke spot Burgundy
Assassination of Étienne Marcel in 1358, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Flandre, Bruges, XVe s., folio 230, recto (BNF, ms. Français 2643).