Making Hay
Above, from left to right: Calendar page for June from The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, 1405???1408/1409. Pol, Jean, and Herman de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France, by 1399???1416). French; Made in Paris. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.1); detail of the activity for the month; detail of the zodiacal symbol Cancer. See the Collection Database to learn more about this work of art.
‘Tis all enforced, the fountain and the grot,
While the sweet fields do lie forgot . . .???Andrew Marvell, “The Mower, Against Gardens”