id: 162147 accession number: 2001.79.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.79.a updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:22.626000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man (Prefatory Miniature to the Office of the Virgin) (recto), c. 1510. France, Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 17.9 x 12.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2001.79.a title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man (Prefatory Miniature to the Office of the Virgin) (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1510 creation date earliest: 1505 creation date latest: 1515 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Rouen, 16th century technique: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Each leaf: 17.9 x 12.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations opening date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00 The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). title: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). 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 (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Imagining the Garden opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00 Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). 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 Carlton R. Richmond date: footnotes: citations: [Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 1981, lot 54] date: footnotes: citations: [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2001 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2001- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This leaf came from a highly customized and lavish book of hours made in Rouen, a major center of book production at the time. digital description: wall description: Characteristic of the artist's hand, the bright orange-reds combine with deep blues, greens, and an abundance of gold wash in this leaf. He used fine parallel lines or crosshatching in gold to indicate the shading, highlights, and texture of draperies, suggesting some knowledge of printmaking, an art for which Rouen was also an important center. His figures have large, thickly outlined oval faces. This miniature also demonstrates the emerging fashion in both Rouen and Paris for highly involved, Italianate architectural frames: winged putti, swags, urns, garlands, scallop shells, pillasters, and masks. These elements could be assembled in different ways so that no two frames were identical. Rouen in the late 1400s and early 1500s was an established and important center for book production. Richly decorated library texts and books of hours, such as the present leaves, were made in Rouen for sale in the cours des libraires, next to the cathedral. --- RELATED WORKS id: 169750 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1510. France, Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.65 relationship: id: 169753 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1510. France, Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.66 relationship: --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 65, cat. no. 63 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n77 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2001.79.a/2001.79.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2001.79.a/2001.79.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2001.79.a/2001.79.a_full.tif