The Well of Moses is a monumental sculpture recognised as the masterpiece of the Dutch artist Claus Sluter, assisted by his nephew Claus de Werve.
Zechariah and Jeremiah from the Well of Moses
Detail of the head of Daniel
The Chartreuse de Champmol, formally the Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, was a Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Dijon, which is now in France, but in the 15th century was the capi
Well of Moses
…1340–1405–06), assisted by his nephew Claus de Werve. It was designed and built by Sluter and his workshop in 1395–1403 for the Carthusian monastery of Chartreuse de Champmol built as a burial site by the Burgundian Duke Philip the Bold just outside the Burgundian capital of Dijon, in today's France. The work was executed…
Champmol in 1686. The cottage-like hermitages of the monks can be seen surrounding the main cloister, with the Well of Moses in the middle.
Philip the Bold and his wife kneel in the portal of the monastery church. Claus Sluter and workshop.
Each of the choir monks had one of these paintings in his hermitage, probably as the only decoration. Cleveland Museum of Art.
The tombs of the Dukes, now moved to the "Salle de Garde" of their palace in Dijon.