# Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms

- By: Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546)
- By: The 1520s Hours Workshop (French)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.174.2)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.174.2/2003.174.2_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.