The Visitation: Leaf from a Book of Hours (5 of 6 Excised Leaves)
Henri d'Orquevaulx (French)
or Workshop
c. 1420
- Medium
- ink, tempera and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Dimensions
- Each leaf: 16.1 x 12.5 cm (6 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- 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
This leaf survives from what must have been an extraordinarily rich book of hours. Stylistically, the illuminations relate to the workshop of Henri d'Orquevaulx, a documented Metz manuscript painter. Little is known about d'Orquevaulx's life or career. Compositionally, structurally, and stylistically, the miniatures suggest strong links to Netherlandish illumination.
