Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Decorated Initial
follower of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25)
c. 1420
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The Guise Master-named after the book of hours he illustrated for François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise-developed his style from the more dominant Parisian workshop of the Boucicaut Master.
