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Illuminated manuscript page with a small painted scene of a kneeling woman in blue and a bending man in dark robes in an arched interior, above Gothic text and gold ivy border.

Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry: manuscript page with miniature

A gilded manuscript page shows a miniature of two figures in an arched interior: a woman in a flowing blue mantle kneels at left, and a man in a dark robe bends forward at right beneath a vaulted architectural setting. Below, blue and red initials and black Gothic script sit within a border of gold-sprigged ivy on vellum.

Artist
The Limbourg Brothers
Date
1405–1408/1409
Medium
Tempera, gold, and ink on vellum
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2730 × 3792 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1409).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1954

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