ANNOUNCEMENT PARIS, CIRCA 1500-1510 Cut-out leaf from a book of hours 8.3 x 5.8 cm The Annunciation is set in a Renaissance interior with a gallery gallery opening onto a landscape. The Virgin is reading her Hours another book is painted on a table to her left. The angel in profile greets the Virgin, who is surprised by her reading. This miniature belongs to the Master of the Parisian Entrances (Jean Coene IV?), named after two manuscripts commemorating the entry of Claude de France of Claude de France in 1517 and that of Mary Tudor in 1514 (I. Nettekoven, Das Stundenbuch der Herzzogin Philippa von Geldern: Jean Coene IV. und die Buchmalerei in Paris um 1500, Berlin, 2023). His activity began in the 1490s and continued until around continued until around 1520, specialising in the production of manuscripts such as the books on the funeral of Anne of Brittany of Anne of Brittany (more than thirty) and those of the coronation and entry of Claude de France. He took part in the impressive Graduel de Saint-Dié, produced between 1504 and 1516. The canons of Saint-Dié must have called on this prolific artist because of his ability to respond large commissions (I. Delaunay, "Le graduel de Saint-Dié", in graduel de Saint-Dié", Art de l'enluminure, 26, Sept-Nov. 2008, p. 52-70). The scene of the Annunciation has an equivalent in several books of hours by the artist Paris, BnF. ms. lat. 13306, f. 19, Caen, Musée des Beaux Arts, ms. Mancel 238, f. 20, London Christie's 9 VII 2001 lot 29, f. 25, Tajan, 5 V 2024, Amiens Bm. ms. 2540, f. 1 (for his books of hours see N. Hatot, M. Jacob, Trésors enluminés de Normandie. Une (re)découverte, cat. d'expo. Rouen, cat. 58 (I. Delaunay), cat. 64 (K. Airaksinen-Monier). The faces of the Virgin and the angel were retouched by the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs. You can recognise her hair with a shower of gold and her pinched faces can be compared with the Hours of Anne of Brittany (Paris, BnF. ms. Nal. 3027, f. 14) dated circa 1500-1505 (see article on Wikipedia).