The Garden of Eden
Folio 25v — Temptation, Fall, and Expulsion in a single walled garden.
- 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
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Three moments of Genesis collapse into one continuous walled garden: at left, the serpent — given a woman's head and torso — tempts Eve as Adam looks on; at center, both eat the fruit; at right, an angel drives the couple through the garden gate into a bare world outside. The garden's crenellated walls are thought to echo the silhouette of Mont-Saint-Michel, folding a real French pilgrimage site into humanity's first home. A fountain of eternal life anchors the composition's heart, its waters dividing into the four rivers of Paradise named in Genesis. Painted with the same jewel-toned precision the Limbourg brothers gave the Duke's own castles, this folio insists that Eden and Berry's France exist on the same continuous, gold-lit plane of creation.
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.
- Available as a Gold-Foil Premium Edition — a metallic accent print evoking the illuminator’s gold, for a piece from one of the tradition’s luminous, gilded manuscripts.
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Room
Frame
Shown as a 12x16″ archival print, true to the piece's own proportions, on a real photographed wall.
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.