Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
c. 1420
Boucicaut Master
Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25)
Medieval Art
Book of Hours (Use of Paris), c. 1420. Follower of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt 1942.169 The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read a devotional text.
- Maker/Artist
- Boucicaut Master
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Formatted Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1942.169
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
- Exhibitions
- Netherlandish Book Illustrations, Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art, The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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