| c 1470-4 The petites heures of Etienne Chevalier (c 1410-74), royal secretary, ambassador, art patron, and treasurer of France. One of 96 large miniatures in gently arched compartments above large initials and three lines of text and within full borders with acanthus leaves, fruit, coloured flowers, and animals. The prayer is taken from the 4th Antiphon of the 1st Nocturn from Vigils on the feast of Bernard. Bernard with the devil at his feet in a cloister garden with a magnificent Gothic church with towers, a rose window, and flying buttresses in the background. Bernard is wearing the same kind of red cap as in the famous picture in the chapter house by Jean Fouquet and is also dressed in white tunic and black scapular (see MA093). The same form of dress is also found in another French miniature (see MA146) and in a painting (PA06).
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