id: 129492 accession number: 1952.227 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.227 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:54.045000 Book of Hours (Use of Rouen), c. 1470. Master of the Geneva Latini (French, active Rouen, 1460–80). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss 1952.227 title: Book of Hours (Use of Rouen) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1470 creation date earliest: 1465 creation date latest: 1475 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss copyright: --- culture: France, Rouen, 15th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the Geneva Latini (French, active Rouen, 1460–80) - artist --- measurements: Codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mirror of the Middle Ages opening date: 1978-03-28T05:00:00 Mirror of the Middle Ages. Tweed Museum of Art University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (organizer) (March 28-April 30, 1978). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation) opening date: 2022-08-26T04:00:00 The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE William Loring Andrews (1837-1920), New York, NY, to Paul Louis Feiss, Cleveland, Oh date: footnotes: citations: Paul Louis Feiss (1875-1952), Cleveland, Oh to Carl. L. Feiss, Cleveland, Oh date: -1952 footnotes: citations: Carl L. Feiss (1907-1997), gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Books of hours were often produced as luxury objects in order to reflect the owner’s status, wealth, and taste. digital description: wall description: In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ritter, Georges, and Jean Lafond. Manuscrits à peintures de l'école de Rouen: livres d'heures normands. Rouen: A. Lestringant, 1913. page number: p. 22 url: Leroquais, V. Les bréviaires manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Paris: [Macon, Protat frères, imprimeurs], 1934. page number: p. 130 url: Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Anne M. Nill, and W. H. Bond. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 1935. page number: p. 1949 url: R.A.K. “A Rouen Book of Hours.” Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University XI (1952) page number: pp. 10-15 url: Front Matter. (1957). The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 44(6) page number: p. 129 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142221 Delaissé, L. M. J., James H. Marrow, and John De Wit. Illuminated Manuscripts. [Fribourg]: Office du Livre, 1977. page number: pp. 247-264 url: Stones, Alison, and John William Steyaert. Medieval Illumination, Glass, and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections: Catalogue. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978. page number: p. 83 url: Plummer, John, and Gregory T. Clark. The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530 : from American Collections. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. page number: p.66-67, nos.88 url: Rabel, Claudia. “Artists et clientele a la fin du Moyen Age: Les manuscrits profanes de Maitre de l'echevinage de Rouen." Revue de L'Art 84 (1989) page number: pp. 48-60 url: De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. 1994. page number: p. 185 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.227/1952.227_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.227/1952.227_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.227/1952.227_full.tif