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March 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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Below the list of feasts proper to the month of March,
a hooded and booted man prunes a vine stock with his billhook, while another dumps manure on the soil of the vineyard. The winter rest from field work is over; in wine-growing locales, the pruning and manuring of the vine stocks was the first task of the agricultural year.

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