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<div class="thumbcaption">''The Moulins Triptych'', c. 1498, oil on panel, Moulins Cathedral</div>
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'''Jean Hey''' (or '''Jean Hay''') ([[floruit|fl.]] c. 1475 – c. 1505),<ref name="Brigstocke">Brigstocke 2001, p. 338</ref>  now generally identified with the artist formerly known as the '''Master of Moulins''', was an [[Early Netherlandish painter]] working in France and the [[Duchy of Burgundy]], and associated with the court of the [[Duke of Bourbon|Dukes of Bourbon]].

==Life and works==
[[File:Master of Moulins - Madonna Enthroned with Saints (detail) - WGA14457.jpg|thumb|''The Moulins Triptych'' (detail of central panel)]]
[[File:Master of Moulins 004.jpg|thumb|left|[[Margaret of Habsburg (1480-1530)|Margaret of Austria]]]]
Little is known about Hey, whose style has led to speculation that he may have studied under [[Hugo van der Goes]]. It is possible that he spent his last years in [[Paris]].<ref name="Brigstocke"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394516/Master-of-Moulins |title=Master of Moulins, |publisher=global.britannica.com|accessdate=}}</ref>

Hey's most well-known work, the [[triptych]] in [[Moulins Cathedral]], dates from the end of 15th century. The central panel shows the [[Madonna and Child]] adored by angels, and is flanked by portraits of the duke [[Peter II, Duke of Bourbon|Pierre II]] and the duchess [[Anne de Beaujeu]] with their daughter [[Suzanne of Bourbon|Suzanne]].  The triptych's state of preservation is generally excellent, although at some time before the 1830s the top and bottom of the wings were trimmed (the left wing more at the bottom and the right wing more at the top).<ref>Reynolds 1996 p. 732</ref>

==Identifying the Master of Moulins==
[[File:NativiteRolin.jpg|thumb|[[Nativity with a Portrait of Cardinal Jean Roulin|Nativity]] with [[donor portrait]] of [[Jean Rolin (cardinal)|Cardinal Rolin]]]] 
Until the 1902 ''[[Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges]]'', the name of the painter of the Moulins Triptych was unknown, although art historians identified a number of other works that were evidently by the same hand. [[Georges Hulin de Loo]] first made the connection between this artist and a ''Jehan Pérreal de Paris'' when he compared the drapery and sleeves of the Mary Magdalene lent from the Léon de Somzee collection, to the Moulins triptych.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/delidentitdecer00loogoog#page/n42/mode/1up ''Maitres Anonymes''], extract of Hulin de Loo's critical catalog of the Bruges 1902 art exhibition</ref> 
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File:Meister von Moulins 002.jpg|''Mary Magdalene'' from the Somzee collection in the 1902 exhibition
File:Hay7.JPG|''Portrait of Francis de Chateaubriand'', also on loan from Glasgow to the 1902 exhibition
File:Georges Hulin de Loo - Titlepage Maitres Anonymes 1902.jpg|Extract of Hulin de Loo's critical catalog with his anonymous master identifications
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The first monograph on the Master of Moulins, written in 1961 by Madeleine Huillet d'Istria, argued that this artist did not actually exist, and that more than 12 different artists were responsible for the corpus of works traditionally ascribed to him.<ref>Châtelet, p. 517</ref> The Master's identity was established after an inscription was found on the reverse of a damaged painting, ''Christ with Crown of Thorns'' (1494) in the [[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium]], [[Brussels]], identifying the artist as Jean Hey, ''teutonicus'' and ''pictor egregius'' ("the famous painter"), and identifying the patron as Jean Cueillette, who  was secretary to the King and an associate of the Bourbon family.<ref name="Brigstocke"/><ref name="Reynolds 1996, p. 733">Reynolds 1996, p. 733</ref> Stylistic similarities link this painting to the works attributed to the Master of Moulins.<ref name="Reynolds 1996, p. 733"/> The Master of Moulins appears to have been the court painter for the Bourbons,<ref name="Reynolds 1996, p. 734">Reynolds 1996, p. 734</ref> and from a surviving account for 1502–03, it is clear that the court painter's name was Jean; other candidates once considered plausible, such as [[Jean Perréal]] and [[Jean Prévost (artist)|Jean Prévost]] (an artist from [[Lyon]] who worked in stained glass), have proven untenable in the light of subsequent research.<ref name="Reynolds 1996, p. 734"/> The term "Teutonicus", or "German" included [[Flemish people|Flemings]] at this date.
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File:The Annunciation, 1490-1495, by Jean Hey (Master of Moulins) - Art Institute of Chicago - DSC09637.JPG|''The Annunciation'', 1490–1495, [[Art Institute of Chicago]] 
File:Meister von Moulins 004.jpg|Portrait of [[Charles II of Bourbon]]
File:Master of Moulins - The Dauphin Charles-Orlant - WGA14467.jpg|''Le dauphin [[Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France]]'', 1494
File:Meister von Moulins 003.jpg|''The Virgin and the Child''
File:Master of Moulins - Pierre II, Duc de Bourbon, Presented by St Peter - WGA14464.jpg|Pierre II, Duc de Bourbon, Presented by St Peter
File:Hey Anne of France presented by Saint John the Evangelist.jpg|Anne of France presented by Saint John the Evangelist
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File:Jean hey, ecce homo, 1494.JPG|Christ with Crown of Thorns (Ecce Homo), 1494
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==Notes==
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==References==
*Brigstocke, H. (2001). ''The Oxford companion to Western art''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-866203-3}}
*Châtelet, Albert (1962). "A Plea for the Master of Moulins". ''The Burlington Magazine'' '''104''' (717): 517–524.
*Gowing, Lawrence (1987). ''Paintings in the Louvre''. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. {{ISBN|1-55670-007-5}}
*Reynolds, Catherine (1996). "Master of Moulins", ''The Dictionary of Art'' '''xx'''. 731–734.
*Zerner, Henri (2003). ''Renaissance Art in France: the invention of classicism''. Paris: Flammarion. {{ISBN|2-08-011144-2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hey_jean.html Jean Hey at Artcyclopedia]
*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/74278/rec/1 Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain], a collection catalog fully available online as a PDF, which contains material on Jean Hey (no. 3)
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