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  • Title: Foire [Fair] Scene
  • Creator: Master of the Cité des Dames, miniaturist
  • Description: The foire [fair] assembled annually and attracted merchants internationally. Here the cityscape is greatly reduced to almost diorama size so that we might have a better glimpse of the activity occurring within it. In the background merchants sell wool at tables while another sells woven baskets. Others have pigs and cows for sale. A female merchant sits by a cross marker with her basket of chickens. A well-to-do couple has just entered the scene.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Animals Fairs Markets Merchants Work
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
  • Date: ca. 1400-1405
  • Related Work: Thomas III de Saluces, Le Chevalier errant
  • Current Location: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits, fr. 12559, fol. 167
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript Illuminations
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment)
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  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 2.6 (illumination only)/3.4 (illumination only)/
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