Folio 185v

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Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405–1408/9. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416). French; Made in Paris. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum; 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.1).

The Story of Saint Jerome
Saint Jerome Contemplates the Holy Sepulchre, Folio 185v

As Jerome prays, he visualizes Christ’s tomb with the soldiers sleeping against it, as they do in the Passion cycle in the manuscript (see Folio 152v).