Leaf from a Book of Hours: King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546)
The 1520s Hours Workshop (French)
c. 1530–35
- Medium
- ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Dimensions
- Each leaf: 11.2 x 6.4 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/2 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 subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The 1520s Hours Workshop produced luxury books of hours for a wealthy, often royal, clientele. Recent evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop’s activity under the direction of Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare (died 1546). Containing fuschia pinks and bright acid greens, the palette is unusual in French manuscript painting of the period. Instead, Bellemare’s miniatures point directly to Antwerp painting at the time.
