Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (c. 1460): Art, History and Details

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (c. 1460) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The shepherd and shepherdess gaze up toward a pair of angels who are announcing that Christ has been born. A dog is curled at their feet while sheep graze around them. This anonymous painter had a highly personal style recognized by its facial types, architectural forms, and a love of sumptuous textile patterns. He has been associated with other books of hours that were produced in and for the city of Troyes in France.

Object facts

• Title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds
• Date: c. 1460
• Culture: France, Troyes?, 15th century
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Leaf: 20.1 x 13.8 cm (7 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 2011.61

A detail from the museum

Although we don't know the name of the artist, other leaves by the same individual have been identified in other collections.

Collection credit

The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.

View the collection record

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