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February Activity from The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux

Jean Pucelle (French, active in Paris, ca. 1320–1334)
The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux, ca. 1324–1328
Made in Paris
Grisaille and tempera on vellum; 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (8.9 x 6.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.2)
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A solitary householder, swaddled against the cold, hunches in a chair made from coiled straw and warms himself at his hearth. He extends one leg toward the fire to warm his toes; some sausages have been hung to cure from a rack above his head.

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