Baerze, Jacques de

Baerze, Jacques de (active 1380s and 1390s).
Netherlandish woodcarver active in Termonde (Dendermonde), near Ghent. His only known surviving works are two altarpieces commissioned by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, for the Chartreuse de Champmol at Dijon and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts there. The more elaborate of the two altarpieces has painted wings (1394–9) by Melchior Broederlam. De Baerze's style was more conservative than Broederlam's and his flat compositions, dominated by the richly gilded Gothic framework, make a strong contrast with the solidly three-dimensional style of his great contemporary Claus Sluter. However, Sluter was part of the committee that judged the altarpieces favourably.