Fortunately, however, connoisseurs like Reiset and Mariette arose, who bequeathed French fifteenth and sixteenth century pictures to the Louvre; and later still this remarkable legacy from the Duc d’Aumale restored to France some of her own most valuable treasures. By means of these acquisitions this patriotic Prince has constructed a monument to French Art which is as interesting as it is unique.
Plate XXVIII.
Photo. Giraudon.
FEBRUARY.
Pol de Limbourg.
From The “Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.”
To face page 156.