December — The Boar Hunt at Vincennes
Hounds bring down a boar in the Duke's own royal forest.
- 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
The calendar closes in violence and skill: hounds have cornered and are savaging a wild boar in the Bois de Vincennes, a royal hunting forest just east of Paris, while huntsmen close in with spears and a horn-blower signals the kill to the rest of the party moving through the trees behind. Winter hunting supplied the aristocratic table through the coldest months, and the scene is rendered with real anatomical attention to the dogs' straining bodies and the boar's fury. The zodiac lunette carries Sagittarius into Capricorn, completing the wheel that began with the Duke's New Year feast — the calendar's year closing exactly where it opened, on Valois land and Valois appetite.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Musée Condé, Chantilly’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
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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.