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Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne

MS M.50, Fol. 1
MS M.50, Fol. 1v-2
MS M.50, Fol. 2v-3
MS M.50, Fol. 3v-4
MS M.50, Fol. 4v-5
MS M.50, Fol. 5v-6
MS M.50, Fol. 6v-7
MS M.50, Fol. 7v-8
MS M.50, Fol. 9
MS M.50, Fol. 10v
MS M.50, Fol. 11v
MS M.50, Fol. 13
MS M.50, Fol. 14v
MS M.50, Fol. 16
MS M.50, Fol. 17v
MS M.50, Fol. 18v
MS M.50, Fol. 19v
MS M.50, Fol. 20v
MS M.50, Fol. 21v
MS M.50, Fol. 23v
MS M.50, Fol. 24v
MS M.50, Fol. 25v
MS M.50, Fol. 26v
MS M.50, Fol. 27v
MS M.50, Fol. 29
MS M.50, Fol. 29v–30r
MS M.50, Fol. 31
Anne de Bretagne kneeling in prayer

This prayer book was commissioned by Anne de Bretagne, wife of two successive kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII, to teach her son, the dauphin Charles-Orland (1492–1495), his catechism. It was painted in Tours by Jean Poyer, an artist documented as working for the queen. The book is richly illustrated, and its thirty-four airy, light-flooded miniatures are among the most delicate examples of late-fifteenth-century art.

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