[33] Closely allied to the _Ingeburge Psalter_, and likewise
showing English influence, is the _Arsenal_ MS., formerly at the
Sainte-Chapelle, and executed for Blanche Castille, mother of St. Louis.
[34] Cf. p. 168.
[35] It was fortunate indeed that Comte Paul Durrieu had made a
reproduction in phototype from the original _Hours of Turin_ before
they were burnt; for they were by far the most interesting part of
the MS. Some of the miniatures have been attributed to Hubert van
Eyck--namely that portion which in 1417 belonged to Count Hainau, who
is himself represented in one of them arriving with his train on the
shores of the North Sea, where his daughter Jaqueline and her attendant
ladies are awaiting him.
[36] See Plate XXVII.
[37] "_Une Salière d'agathe garnie d'or et de perles, laquelle salière
l'artiste donna à monseigneur aux estraignes._"--Léon de Laborde,
_Glossaire_, p. 367.
[38] See Plate XXVIII.
[39] Cf. p. 163.
[40] See Plate XXIX.
[41] See Plate XXX.
[42] See Plate XXXI.
[43] See Plate XXXII.
[44] See Plate XXXIII.
[45] See Plate XXXIV.
[46] See Plate XXXV.
[47] Masaccio (born in 1401), it is believed, could not have painted
the frescoes at San Clemente before 1417; perhaps even, considering his
age, rather later.
[48] M. de Mely, _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, 1912.
[49] Durrieu mentions that one of the _Kings_ seems to have been
_inspired_ by this medal, but as a matter of fact he is _faithfully
copied_ from it.
[50] See Plate XXXVIII.
[51] See Plate XXXIX.
[52] It was in this castle that the Duc de Berry commissioned André
Beauneveu, Pol Limbourg's predecessor, to prepare for him a _Book of
Hours_, subsequently completed with the assistance of Jacquemart de
Hesdin. This MS., which contains a very characteristic portrait of the
_Duke_ himself, is now to be seen in the Library at Brussels. Beauneveu
died in 1413, two years before the Brothers Limbourg appeared upon the
horizon of French Art.
[53] See Plate XXVI.
[54] Also called _Heures d'Ailly_, after its former owners.
[55] Probably the figure to the right drawn full face, for it bears
an unmistakable resemblance to Fouquet's _Portrait of Himself_ in the
Louvre, executed in enamel.
[56] Cf. _The Romance of a Book_, by Yates Thomson (_Burlington
Magazine_, 1906).
[57] See Plate XL.
[58] See Plate LXI.
[59] See Plate XLII.
[60] See Plate XLIII.
[61] See Plate XLIV.
[62] See Plate XLV.
[63] We find this composition also in Duccio's famous altarpiece at
Siena.
[64] All Saints' Day. See Plate XLVIII.
[65] _Journal du voyage de Michel Montaigne_, i. p. 17.
[66] In the collection of Mr. Ayr in London.
[67] M. Leprieur, _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, January 1911.
[68] A contemporary monument in the Cathedral at Tours erected by Anne
de Bretagne to the memory of these two little boys has assisted greatly
in the identification of these portraits.
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