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The Boucicaut Master takes his name from the book of hours he made for Jean de Boucicaut (died 1421), marshal of France, who was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. This talented artist, known for his tall, elongated figures with delicate features, exercised profound influence over Parisian manuscript painting during the first decades of the 1400s—a point illustrated by this volume.
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Document identity
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121799
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
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121799
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
description
The Boucicaut Master takes his name from the book of hours he made for Jean de Boucicaut (died 1421), marshal of France, who was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. This talented artist, known for his tall, elongated figures with delicate features, exercised profound influence over Parisian manuscript painting during the first decades of the 1400s—a point illustrated by this volume.
date
c. 1420
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60757488
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7752
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Bound Volume
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Sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)
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France, Paris
accession
1942.169
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ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
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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
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MED - Manuscript Illuminations
didYouKnow
The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read a devotional text.
citations
citation
“Gothic Art 1360-1440: Catalog.” The <em>Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin</em> (Sept. 1963)
page_number
p. 189 & 202
citation
Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke. 1967.
citation
Delaisse, L.M.J. “An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination.” <em>AllenMemorial Art Museum Bulletin </em>XVII (Summer 1960)
page_number
p. 97
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Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page_number
p. 36
citation
Olds, Clifton C., Ralph G. Williams, and William R. Levin. Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art: The University of Michigan, Museum of Art, November 21, 1975-January 4, 1976. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1976.
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p. 50
citation
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, and J. van den Gheyn. Deux livres d'heures (nos. 10767 et 11051 de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) attribués à l'enlumineur Jacques Coene. Bruxelles: Vromant & co; [etc.], 1911.
citation
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.
page_number
figs. 67, 74, 77
citation
Delaisse, L.M.J. “Une Production d’un atelier Parisien et le Caractere Composite de Certains Livres d’Herures." <em>Scriptorium </em>II (1948)
page_number
p. 78
citation
Bartz, Gabriele. <em>Zentrum und Peripherie: der Meister des Guise-Stundenbuchs, vel potius Meister des Stundenbuchs des Guy de Laval. Simbach am Inn: Verlagsbuchhandlung Anton Pfeiler, 2017.</em>
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Mentioned: p. 58, 88 (notes 1-4); 120,179 (note 2); 181; 223, 238
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Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
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2026-05-29 06:16:22.569000
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121799
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Medieval Art
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MED - Manuscript Illuminations
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ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
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male
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