Cleveland Museum of Art

Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Boucicaut MasterLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf2a9c372195

Date: c. 1420
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture: France, Paris
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 121799

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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. The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read a devotional text.

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Credit line: Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
Provenance: -1942: Estate of Julia Morgan Marlatt, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1942-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH