The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux

Jean Pucelle, “The Kiss of Judas and the Annunciation”.   Two-page opening from the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreaux.   Paris c. 1324 – 1328. Grisaille and color on vellum, each page 3 5/8″ x 2 7/16″.   Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

RECOMMENDED READING

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Book of Hours: A Medieval Bestseller

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

The Met Collection

The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, Queen of France,ca. 1324—28

Seeing Art History Video

Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux: Seeing and Believing