September — The Grape Harvest at Saumur
Pickers fill baskets before one of the era's most fantastical castles.
- 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
Grape-pickers fill baskets and load a cart in the foreground vineyard while, on the far bank, the Château de Saumur rises in a profusion of slender towers and gilded weathervanes — one of the most fairy-tale silhouettes in the entire manuscript, closer to a vision of Camelot than to a working fortress. The contrast is deliberate: agricultural labor in the near ground, architectural fantasy in the distance, the two halves of Berry's France held in a single frame. The zodiac lunette moves from Leo into Virgo. Wine was central to the Duke's own household economy, and this folio treats the harvest with the same careful attention as the calendar gives to his feasts.
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.