Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Decorated Initial (c. 1420): Art, History and Details
Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Decorated Initial at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1420, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Decorated Initial (c. 1420) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.
Object facts
- Title: Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Decorated Initial
- Date: c. 1420
- Creator attribution: Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25)
- Culture: France, Paris
- Type: Bound Volume
- Technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Dimensions: Sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
- Department: Medieval Art
- Accession number: 1942.169.26.a
Collection credit
Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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