Jacques Daret

Background

Jacques Daret was born in 1404 in Tournai, where he spent much of his life. He was the son of a sculptor.

Education

Jacques trained in the workshop of Robert Campin where he coincided with Rogier van der Weyden, whose styles clearly influenced his own work.

Career

In 1432 Jacques was registered in the painters’ guild in Tournai. Daret’s works were heavily indebted to his teacher’s ones both with regard to models and style. Jacques Daret enjoyed a high reputation and his pupils included his stepbrother Daniel Daret, who in 1449 received commissions from Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. In the 1430s he was working in his native city of Tournai and in Arras for the abbey of St.Vaast, more specifically on commission for its abbot, Jean du Clercq, for whom he executed a series of works, among them the "Adoration of the Christ Child."

Daret was recorded as working intermittently at the abbey over the course of about twenty years. Between 1433 and 1435 he worked in Arras for the Abbey of Saint-Vaast, a city in which he was again documented in 1441 and 1452. In 1454 he was in Lille, where Jacques worked for the Burgundian court, and in 1468 in Bruges. Among other commissions for Jean du Clercq, Daret executed the polychromy on a series of sculptures. Of that work, four panels survived, "The Visitation", "The Adoration of the Magi", "The Nativity", and "The Presentation in the Temple." Unfortunately, all his later work has been either lost or destroyed, and nothing is thus known of how the young painter's career developed after the altarpiece. He was also involved in designs for decorations for the Burgundian court and worked on the preparations for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York. The artist died in 1470.

Achievements

• Jacques Daret was highly praised for his works "The Visitation", "The Nativity", "Adoration of the Magi", and "Presentation in the Temple."

Works

More photos

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  • Nativity

  • Visitation

  • Presentation in the Temple

  • Adoration of the Magi

Connections

teacher:

Robert Campin

colleague:

Rogier van der Weyden

patron:

Jean de Clercq

References

• Revue De L'Art : Le Portrait de La Reine Caroline Murat; Jacques Daret et Nicolas Froment Cartonniers de Tapisseries; Le Cardinal Ricci Et Philippe II; L'ingenieur et le Sculpteur ou
  1990
• LES PRIMITIFS FLAMANDS. Tome I. LA PEINTURE EN BELGIQUE. Musees, Eglises, Collections, etc. par Fierens-Gevaert. Les Freres van Eyck; Roger van der Weyden; Le Maitre de Flemalle (Jacques Daret ?); Thierry Bouts et ses fils Petrus Christus.
  1908