Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Title: Four Heads and Busts from a Modelbook
  • Creator: Jacquemart de Hesdin, painter, 1350-1410 or workshop
  • Description: On the left, a crowned man in profile faces a woman wearing braids and a crown of leaves. On the right, a bearded man wearing a crown of leaves holds the shoulders of a bald bearded man.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Crowns Modelbooks
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
  • Date: ca. 1400
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  • Current Location: New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, M.0346, fol. 2r
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital Images; Drawings
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Silverpoint; Prepared boxwood
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