Claus de Werve

Claus de Werve served at uncle Claus Sluter's workshop in Dijon as a sixteen-year-old sculptor's apprentice. There he worked on Sluter's most famous work, the Well of Moses. After Sluter's death in 1406, de Werve served Duke Jean the Good and his son Philip the Bold as "tailleur d'ymages et varlet de chambre". Between 1406 and 1410, he assisted with the completion of the tomb of Philip the Bold in Champmol (now the Musée Archéologique, Dijon), on which the sculptors Jean de Marville and Sluter had earlier worked. He is considered the author of the alabaster figures of Mourners of Dijon. Their conception is characterised by the individualisation of the monks and the expressive rendering of their draperies. De Werve travelled to Savoy in 1408 at the invitation of Duke Amadeus VIII and probably worked at Sainte-Chapelle in Chambéry. He lived in Paris between 1400 and 141. Claus de Werve died in 1439 and was succeeded as court sculptor by Jean de la Huerta (d. 1462). ==Selected works==

Attributed • The Well of Moses (1396-1405), collaboration with Claus Sluter. De Werve particularly sculpted the weeping angels. • The Tomb of Philip the Bold (1406-1410), begun by Jean de Marville and Claus Sluter and completed by de Werve, who sculpted the angels and almost all of the mourners • Virgin and Child of Poligny, c. 1415–17, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Workshop or followers • Saint Paul, c. 1420–30, Metropolitan Museum of Art ==Gallery==

Attributed Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye (21) Abbatiale - Intérieur - Groupe sculpté de l'Annonciation.jpg|Annunciation, Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye, France Claux de werve (attr.), san pietro, 1410-20 ca.jpg|Saint Peter, c. 1410-20, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Netherlands Claus van de Werve (ca.1380-1439) Maagd met Kind Musée Rolin.jpg|Virgin and Child, Musée Rolin, Burgundy, France. Virgin and Child MET DP144069.jpg|Virgin and Child of Poligny, c. 1415–17, Metropolitan Museum, NYC Saint Michel (Claus de Wreve).JPG|Saint Michel, from the funerary monument of Amé de Chalon, abbot of Baume-les-Messieurs Workshop or followers Saint Paul MET DP144066.jpg|Saint Paul, c. 1420–30, Metropolitan Museum of Art == References ==