Hours of Étienne Chevalier [SEP] creator
Hours of Étienne Chevalier
The Hours of Étienne Chevalier is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to king Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet.
Only 48 of its leaves with 47 miniatures survive, dispersed across seven collections in Europe and the United States of America. 40 of these illuminations are held at the Musée Condé in Château de Chantilly in France.
History.
It was probably commissioned by Chevalier for his personal use around 1452, just after he was
- Petites heures du Duc de Berry: Paris, Royal Library, lat. 18014
- Les très belles heures de Notre-Dame du Duc de Berry: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 3093
- Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence.
- Rohan Hours, 1430s, BnF
- Taymouth Hours
- Hours of Étienne Chevalier, 1450s - sheets in several libraries
- Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c. 1460, Austrian National Library in Vienna