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Jan 27, 2022
Jan 27, 2022

Annunciation to the Shepherds: Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 6 Excised Leaves)

Annunciation to the Shepherds: Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 6 Excised Leaves)

c. 1420–30

This object has related works. See Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (6 of 6 Excised Leaves); The Ascension: Leaf from a Book of Hours (4 of 6 Excised Leaves); Christ before Pilate: Leaf from a Book of Hours (2 of 6 Excised Leaves); The Nativity: Leaf from a Book of Hours (3 of 6 Excised Leaves); The Visitation: Leaf from a Book of Hours (5 of 6 Excised Leaves)

Henri d'Orquevaulx

(French)

or Workshop

France, Metz, 15th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

Each leaf: 16.1 x 12.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/8 in.)

The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.128

Location

not on view

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Books of hours were devotional books popular in the Middle Ages and meant for laypeople, or those not in the clergy.

Description

This leaf survives from what must have been an extraordinarily rich book of hours. The elaborate Passion cycle and Suffrages point to an important patron. Internal evidence within the original calendar and texts indicates that Metz was the probable place of production. Stylistically, the illuminations appear to come from the workshop of Henri d’Orquevaulx, a documented Metz manuscript painter. Compositionally, structurally, and stylistically, the miniatures suggest strong links to Netherlandish illumination. It is not known whether d’Orquevaulx came originally from the Netherlands or whether he simply worked or trained there at some point in his career.

See also
Collection: 
MED - Manuscript Illuminations
Department: 
Medieval Art
Type of artwork: 
Manuscript
Medium: 
Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Credit line: 
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection

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