Follower of Jean Pichore
(Paris fl. c. 1500-1520)
Assumption of the Virgin (leaf 270 x 190 mm., miniature 95 x 75 mm.)
France, probably Paris, c. 1515-20 (after 1514)

The style of the miniature places it in the orbit of the entrepreneur Jean Pichore and his workshop. The initial with the crowned heart and the gray robe of the Virgin help situate the patronage within the orbit of Anne of Brittany. The crowned heart is most likely a reference to the famous heart reliquary of Anne of Brittany. The fact that the Virgin is atypically dressed in gray, the color of the Carmelite habit, confirms the association of Anne of Brittany and the Missal, which must celebrate her memory and may thus have been commissioned as a gift to a mendicant convent by a member of the royal circle.
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