SLUTEL Sing: er, CLAILX ( ?-c.1405). The principal Dutch sculptor of the later Middle Ages. The earliest record of his life is that in 1389 he became statuary in ordinary at Dijon, to Philip the Bold of Bungundy, whose service he had entered a few years before. In charge of the sculptures for the Carthusian monastery, the Chartreuse de Champmol, which Duke Philip had founded in 13S3, he surpassed in ability all his predecessors and enjoyed a position similar to that of the Pisani in Tuscany, producing works worthy to be ranked with the noblest and most original creations of plastic art in any epoch. In 139S Shaer, aged and infirm, called to his aid his nephew and pupil, Claux de \Verve, of Hattem, to whom must be attributed a more or less important part in the execution of his uncle's latest productions. The earliest of Sluter's works that still remain on the site of the former Chartreuse, now occupied by a lunatic asylum, are the figures on the portal of the chapel (c.1390-94), to wit: "Duke Philip in Prayer," "Saint .John," "Duchess Marguerite." and "Saint Catherine." the first and last of which are especially remarkable for the freshness of their realism. Next comes the famous "Moses
Fountain" (1395-1404) in the courtyard, a hex agonal base with the life-size figures of the "Six Prophets," admirable specimens of psychological individualization, polychronw, according to me dieval usage. reproduction of this work is in the Dijon Museum which also contains Sluter's masterpiece, Tomb of Philip the Bold ( 1404 11) , in black and white marble, the mighty sar cophagus surrounded with a reading, through which passes a procession of forty small ala baster figures of mourners, endowed with great dramatic power and exquisitely finished. The recumbent figure of the Duke is of striking realism. Claus de \Verne undoubtedly com pleted this monument. Consult: Liibke, History of Sculpture (London. 1872) ; Reber, History of ilediaTal Art (New York, 1887) ; Gonse, L'art gothigne (Park, 1590)c id.. La sculpture Trait raise depnis Ir XII"ieme sUrir ( ib., 1594) ; Rat cliffe, Schools and Musters of Seulpturr (New York, 1894).