Sluter, Claus (c. 1380–1406)

Netherlandish sculptor, in the service of Philip the Bold of Burgundy. He was active in Dijon (France) and at the Charterhouse in nearby Champinol. For the latter, he worked on the Well of Moses about 1395–1403 (now in the grounds of a hospital in Dijon) and the kneeling mourners, or pleurants, for the tomb of his patron (Dijon Museum and Cleveland Museum, Ohio), commissioned by Philip the Bold himself but completed under John the Fearless. His style, with its attention to human featues, was continued at the Burgundian court by his nephew, Claus de Werve.