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Limbourg Brothers Prints
About the Limbourg Brothers
The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul (also called Pol) and Jean, were manuscript painters from Nijmegen, then in the duchy of Guelders and now in the Netherlands. They were born in the 1380s and were still teenagers when Jean de France, duc de Berry, chose them to work for him. All three brothers died within months of one another in 1416, the same year as the duke.
The Limbourg brothers painted miniatures, the small, detailed pictures in handwritten books. Their work for the duke included the Belles Heures, a book of hours (a prayer book for private use) made between about 1405 and 1409, with 172 illuminations. It has been at The Cloisters, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, since 1954. They also illuminated the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, now held at the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
Limbourg Brothers prints: reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages painted by Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg between about 1405 and 1409. Works include Belles Heures: Saint Catherine in Her Study (1405), Belles Heures: Angels Carry Saint Catherine to Mount Sinai (1405), Belles Heures: Saint Catherine and the Emperor Maxentius (1405) and Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child (1409).
This selection centres on the Belles Heures, especially its cycle on the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with one page on Saint Jerome and a separate Saint Christopher. The pages show small, crowded scenes with deep blues, gold and patterned backgrounds, framed by decorated borders.
The jewel-like colours and small scale suit studies, libraries, bedrooms and reading corners, and the Saint Catherine pages can hang together as a short series. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
