[ENLUMINATION] Announcement to the shepherds Leaf from a book of hours. Hours of the Virgin Mary. Tierce. Western France, Anjou ? Brittany ? circa 1430-1440 Size of leaf: 175 x 122 mm ; frame: 235 x 176 mm Breton artist ? Cercle du Maitre de Walters W.221 ? Good condition. This folio comes from the same manuscript as lot 256. The borders of this folio are reminiscent of certain borders in manuscripts painted in the years 140-1435 (Angers?), for example in the Grandes Heures de Rohan (Paris, BnF, latin 9471), in particular the bouquets of blue flowers on red stems and the borders with gilded vignettes. The cloaks of the shepherds (and of the "vif" in the miniature that follows) are reminiscent of the cloaks in illuminations painted in Parisian circles in the years 1400-1415, particularly these blue cloaks, lined with fur in the illumination of the "Mort et du vif" (see lot 256). The illumination appears to have been painted in western France, reminiscent of paintings attributed to an artist named after the Hours preserved in Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, ms. W.221 (see J. Plummer, Last Flowering, 1982 n° 25). Active in Brittany, probably in Rennes, this artist has stylistic origins further back in Paris (Maître de Luçon/Etienne Loypeau) and a closer relationship with the painter of Jeanne Raguenel's Breton Book of Hours, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, ms. 60.