FOUQUET, Jean
(b. ca. 1420, Tours, d. ca. 1480, Tours)

Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier

1452-60
Manuscript (Ms. 71), 201 x 148 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly

The picture shows the miniature The Annunciation from the Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier.

This miniature was produced for Matins, the beginning of the liturgical day and at the outset of a cycle of images devoted to the joys and sorrows of Mary.




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