Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Avril (April)
1412-16
Illumination on vellum, 225 x 136 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly
April
The arrival of spring, hope and new life - the grass is green and a newly betrothed couple are exchanging rings in the foreground, accompanied by friends and family. The chateau is another one of the Duc's, that of Dourdan.
