[MR] Help in identifying an image.

[Tom Rettie & Heather Bryden]

Attributed to Jean Bourdichon, "The Four Stages of Human Society." 
Painted miniature, c. 1500, Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Cited in "The Book of Trades" by Jost Amman, Introduction by Benjamin 
A. Rifkin. Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1973.

Hope that helps,

Fin

On Aug 3, 2006, at 4:08 PM, jbrmm266 at aol.com wrote:

> Can anyone identify the source of this manuscript illumination?
>
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medievalsawdust/
>
> I suspect that it's from a Book of Hours and that it represents the 
> Holy Family, but neither I nor at this point anyone in the mailing 
> list whose opening page it is knows where it's from.
>


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