MINIATURIST, French
(active 1520s)

Book of Hours

1524
Manuscript
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Books of hours begin with a calendar in which the twelve months are illustrated in superbly illuminated manuscripts with coloured miniature scenes showing the labours of the months. In this scene by the Master Jean de Mauléon, a book painter from the 1520s Book of Hours Workshop, one peasant is shown plowing his field in September while a second casts seeds over the furrows that he has cut.