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aster of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany
(Paris, active c. 1480-1510)
Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child,
accompanied by Saints Catherine and Barbara, hand-colored woodcut (190 x 156 mm.)
in a wood and metal Gothic coffret (190 x 290 x 130 mm.)
France, Paris, c. 1490?
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At the center of this woodcut—a unique, unedited impression—appears the “St. Anne Trinity”: St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the Christ Child are portrayed in a vertical configuration, resembling the Holy Trinity. Below are images of St. Catherine with her book, sword, and wheel, and St. Barbara with her tower and palm of martyrdom. This woodcut is typical of the style of the Master of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany, who maintained a virtual monopoly on all the domains of the decorative arts in the 1490s in Paris, supplying designs for printed books of hours, for tapestry, for stained glass, and for Gothic coffrets.
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