Photo. Giraudon.
PLAN OF ROME.
Pol de Limbourg and his Brothers.
From The “Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.”
The Musée Condé affords the most unique opportunities for the study of French art. The Wallace Collection may be richer in the work of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, but there is nothing in that collection which can compare with the examples of French fifteenth and sixteenth century art enshrined at the Musée Condé; for example, the exquisite miniatures of the Brothers Limbourg and of Jean Fouquet, or the precious pencil portraits by the Valois Court-Painters. It is to these that closer attention will be drawn in the following chapters.
CHAPTER XII
FRENCH ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AT CHANTILLY
Plate XXVII.