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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Visitation

c. 1415

Part of a set. See all set records

workshop of Boucicaut Master

(French, Paris, active about 1410–25)

France, Paris, 15th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

Sheet: 17 x 12.7 cm (6 11/16 x 5 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.366.1

Location

115 Manuscripts & Textiles

Inscriptions

Inscription

Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina.

Inscription Translation

O Lord, make speed to save me. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Provenance

-1953

Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1953-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Allen Memorial Art Museum. An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 Thorugh May 12. 1960. Cat. no. 10 a-d

Gothic Art 1360-1440. (1963). The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 50(7).

Meiss, Millard, Kathleen Morand, and Edith W. Kirsch. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Boucicaut Master. 1968. p. 139

Exhibition history

Netherlandish Illumination, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 22-May 12, 1960).

Netherlandish Book Illustrations. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 22-May 15, 1960).

Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

Developments in the Early Renaissance. Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY (organizer) (May 4-14, 1968).

The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).