Exhibitions | Past

Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France
January 25 through May 6, 2001

Month of May: Picking Branches
Border: Saints of May
Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1500
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977
MS H.8 (fol. 3)

St. Philip: Philip Vanquishing Idols and a Demon
Border: Philip Baptizing
Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1500
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977
MS H.8 (fol. 177)

St. Catherine: Catherine Rescued from the Torture Wheels
Border: Decapitation of Catherine
Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1500
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977
MS H.8 (fol. 188v)

Massacre of the Innocents
Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1500
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977
MS H.8 (fol. 69v)

Angels Displaying the Eucharist in a Monstrance
Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1492–95
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Purchased in 1905
MS M.50 (fol. 11v)

St. Margaret and the Dragon
Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
France, Tours, ca. 1492–95
The Pierpont Morgan Library, Purchased in 1905
MS M.50 (fol. 20v)