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ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS, miniature opening Terce in the Office of the Virgin, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[west central France, third quarter of the 15th century]
176 x 127mm (leaf); 98 x 67mm (miniature). An arch-topped miniature with two shepherds and a small flock of sheep in a landscape with a town and a rocky outcropping in the middle distance and snowy mountains on the horizon, a single angel holding a scroll in the heavens, over an initial D and four lines of script, within an inner three-sided border of blue and pink baguettes with white tracery and a full border of tiny burnished gold leaves on thin black stems interspersed with sprays of acanthus in blue and liquid gold and bunches of cornflowers, pinks and violets (the initial slightly rubbed, minor losses of pigment from the border). Framed.
The airy definition and separation of figures, landforms and trees in this unusual and distinctive miniature recall the work of the Master of Adelaide of Savoy: the border type, with large foliage sprays with leaves of green and gold, suggests an origin in western France.
[west central France, third quarter of the 15th century]
176 x 127mm (leaf); 98 x 67mm (miniature). An arch-topped miniature with two shepherds and a small flock of sheep in a landscape with a town and a rocky outcropping in the middle distance and snowy mountains on the horizon, a single angel holding a scroll in the heavens, over an initial D and four lines of script, within an inner three-sided border of blue and pink baguettes with white tracery and a full border of tiny burnished gold leaves on thin black stems interspersed with sprays of acanthus in blue and liquid gold and bunches of cornflowers, pinks and violets (the initial slightly rubbed, minor losses of pigment from the border). Framed.
The airy definition and separation of figures, landforms and trees in this unusual and distinctive miniature recall the work of the Master of Adelaide of Savoy: the border type, with large foliage sprays with leaves of green and gold, suggests an origin in western France.