[MR] Help in identifying an image.

[Anthony Bryant]

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.

Uhhh... Donal....

Look NEXT to the picture. :)

"The picture shown is from...
Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Societe: L'Etat de 
travail. c. 1500 in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des 
Beaux-Arts in Paris. It's one of a group of four miniatures 
depicting the different "states" of society (nature, 
poverty, work, nobility)."

Effingham
-- 

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