Book of Hours

Description Jean Pichore was one of many versatile artists who did not see the print revolution as a threat to their work as manuscript illuminators but rather embraced the opportunity to expand their skills. Pichore was an admired and highly sought-after artist whose deftness with a brush, demonstrated here, was equaled by his sense of design for the printed page.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/17/1976	Treatment	stabilized
7/24/2012	Treatment	repaired
11/11/2014	Treatment	binding stabilized; examined for exhibition; stabilized

Exhibitions

• Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2009.
• From Pen to Press: Experimentation and Innovation in the Age of Print. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2015.

Provenance Jean Lallemant the Elder (died 1533). Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters