Manuscripts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century are always interesting discoveries as they provide additional witnesses to one of the most creative periods in French illumination. With strikingly original backgrounds, the grisaille elements in this manuscript confer additional elegance to fine miniatures in a Book of Hours once owned by an identified early female patron, Collette de Lautier. The renewed and corrected attribution of these Horae to this interesting Parisian artist, re-christened “Ravenelle Painter” adds to our appreciation of this artist active in Paris at the time of the Duke of Berry.   



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