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Title:
February
Creator:
Herman, Jean, and Paul de Limbourg, painters
Description:
A scene of wintry weather illustrates the calendar for February. Three peasants are out in the cold while in a farm house a finely dressed woman and two peasants sit before the fire. Michael Camille pointed out that these two peasants, a man and a woman, both expose their genitals before the fire. He argued that this explicit illustration was done at the request of the patron, Jean, duke of Berry.
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WikiMedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
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:
Fires
Nude
Peasantry
Trés Riches Heures de Duc de Berry
Winter
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1413-1416
Related Work:
Trés Riches Heures. See the digitized manuscript at:
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/
Current Location:
Paris, Musée Condé, MS 65, fol. 2v
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Vellum (parchment)
Donor:
Layman; Jean, Duke of Berry
Height/Width/Length(cm):
29 cm/21 cm/
Inscription:
Related Resources:
Michael Camille. "'For Our Devotion and Pleasure': The Sexual Objects of Jean, Duc de Berry." Art History 24, 2 (2001): 174.