page_title: Maître de Chaource
section_title: Statues of Peter and Paul in Saint Pouange
hierarchical_section_title: Maître de Chaource / Other works possibly by the Maître de Chaource, his atelier or the École de Troyes / Statues of Peter and Paul in Saint Pouange
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Exposition "Le Beau XVIe siècle". Saint Pierre XVIe siècle. Statue, calcaire avec traces de polychromie. Saint Pouange (Aube) Classé Monument historique le 27.12.1913
context_page_description: The Maître de Chaource was an unidentified sculptor who worked in the late 15th and early 16th century, in the French town of Chaource. While many works are attributed anonymously to him or his atelier, some scholars have identified Jacques Bachot as the artist. There is certainly circumstantial evidence which points to Bachot; he was a contemporary of the Maître de Chaource and often worked in the same locations and works by Bachot such as that in the church of Saint-Laurent in Joinville, of which fragments are held in the Joinville Town Hall, show great similarities to the work of the Maître de Chaource.
  In 1992, Heinz-Herman Arnhold wrote that the works of the Maître de Chaource's atelier can be seen from Reims in the north to Ravières in the south and from Langres in the east to Villeneuve-l'Archevêque in the west.
context_section_description: In his thesis Arnhold addresses the possibility of these two life-size statues being by the Maître de Chaource, dates them between 1518 and 1520 and states that there is archival evidence that they were brought to Saint Pouange in 1861, and had previously stood on the west facade of Troyes Cathedral.
  The records of Troyes Cathedral show that in 1517/1518 a sculptor called Jehan Briaix prepared some drawings for sculptures of Christ and Peter and Paul, but there is no record as to who subsequently carried out the carving, although it could have been Nicolas Halins, the Flemish sculptor.
  Arnhold concludes that for stylistic reasons the work could have been by the Maître de Chaource but is a little more tentative than with other attributions.
  Another scholar C.Fichot, already mentioned above, in his 1884 work  " Statistique monumentale de l'Aube" states that these two statues could have come from the Troyes church Saint-Jacques-aux-Nonnains or the Cathedral of Troyes.
caption: St Peter in Saint Pouange.
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