Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

005. MS M.399, fol. 3r

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 3r

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. On the right side of the frame is a statue of a male figure within an architectural niche. Within the lower margin, three scenes are enclosed in roundels:

1) A winter landscape.

2) Aquarius, a zodiac sign―Within a landscape, a nude male figure pours water from two vessels.

3) A male figure wearing winter clothing skates on a frozen river with his arms cross. The scene is within a winter landscape.