Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 56r, Adoration with Shepherds/Nativity
Medium
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Dimensions
19.5 × 13.1 cm
Classification
Bound Volume
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss
Accession Number
1952.227.56.a
Tags
male
About this artwork
In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s.