page_title: Jean Poyer
section_title: Briçonnet Book of Hours
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Poyer / Works / Briçonnet Book of Hours
caption_attribution_description: English: Page 49 from Briçonnet Heures.
context_page_description: Jean Poyer, was a French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator of the late 15th century. As a multitalented artist - illuminator, painter, draftsman, and festival designer active from 1483 until his death - he was a painter of Renaissance France, working for the courts of three successive French kings: Louis XI, Charles VIII, and Louis XII.
context_section_description: The Briçonnet Book of Hours ("Briconnet Heures") was commissioned by Guillaume Briçonnet, France's secretary of the treasury under Charles VIII, as a gift to his wife. It is estimated to have been painted between 1485-1490. Differing from typical style of the era, some of the miniatures in this book feature an atypical depiction of Mary, wearing her hair rolled up in a bun under her veil, indicating that Mary may have been modeled to look like Guillaume's wife.
  The Briçonnet Book of Hours is collections of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands.
caption: Page 49 from Briçonnet Heures
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