June — Haymaking Before the Sainte-Chapelle
Peasants scythe hay in the shadow of Paris's royal palace.
- 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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The story
Women rake and men scythe a hayfield on the Île de la Cité, while across the Seine the unmistakable silhouette of the Palais de la Cité rises, its spires including the Sainte-Chapelle, Louis IX's reliquary chapel for the Crown of Thorns. It is one of the calendar's most topographically exact scenes — a real, identifiable corner of medieval Paris, rendered with a cartographer's eye alongside a genre painter's feel for gesture and effort. The zodiac lunette turns from Gemini to Cancer. This folio is often cited as an early landmark of European urban landscape painting: the city itself, not just its rulers, worthy of the illuminator's full attention.
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.