August — The Falconry Party
Nobles ride to hawk before the Château d'Étampes, harvest and hounds all around them.
- Work
- Book of Hours (calendar cycle)
- Artist / creator
- The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe
- Origin & date
- Franco-Flemish, c. 1412–1416 (later miniatures c. 1485–1489)
- Held by
- Musée Condé, Chantilly
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$24.00
The story
Nobles ride out with hawks on their wrists and hounds coursing at their heels, while beyond them the Château d'Étampes rises on its rise of ground — a fortress the Duke had acquired in 1400 at the death of Louis d'Évreux, its keep and the surviving Tour Guinette still standing today. Behind the falconry party, the calendar's other August unfolds without pause: reapers cut grain, a cart hauls the harvest, and bathers cool themselves in a stream, one clambering out as another tumbles in — genre comedy tucked into the corner of an aristocratic scene. The zodiac lunette turns Leo into Virgo, the harvest maiden holding her sheaf of wheat. Where July showed the Duke's land feeding his table, August shows his court at leisure upon it — hawking above, harvesting below, the whole social order visible in a single gold-lit field.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Musée Condé, Chantilly’s open-access release.
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From The Calendar
January — The Duke's New Year
The calendar's famous frontispiece: Jean de Berry at his own feast table.
February — The Peasants' Hearth
A snow-covered farmyard, and the coldest, tenderest scene in the calendar.
March — Plowing at Lusignan
Sowers and shepherds beneath a fairy-tale castle on the horizon.
April — The Betrothal
A ring exchanged before the Château de Dourdan, in the year's first green.