Claus or Claux de Werve ( 1380–1439) was a sculptor active at the Burgundian court under

Philip the Bold Philip II the Bold (; ; 17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and ''jure uxoris'' Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. He was the fourth and youngest son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg. Philip II w ...

between 1395 and 1439. He was probably born in the Dutch city of

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

around 1380. Claux de Werve St Barbara

In 1396 he became the assistant to his uncle, Claus Sluter at the Burgundian court in

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, France. He helped his uncle carve the mourners on the

tomb of Philip the Bold The Tomb of Philip the Bold is a funerary monument commissioned in 1378 by the Duke of Burgundy Philip the Bold (d. 1404) for his burial at the Chartreuse de Champmol, the Carthusian monastery he built on the outskirts of Dijon, in today's Franc ...

. Upon Sluter's death in 1406 he took over the position of Chief Sculptor at the court. As chief sculptor he produced a number of masterpieces, including the ''Virgin and the Child of Poligny'', now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

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Claux de Werve
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Werve, Claus de 1380s births 1439 deaths Artists from Haarlem Early Netherlandish sculptors 15th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Dutch male sculptors