August — The Falconry Party
The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe, c. 1412–1416
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 194 dpi, good. Trimmed 7.7% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Nobles ride out with hawks on their wrists and hounds coursing at their heels, while beyond them the Château d'Étampes rises on its rise of ground — a fortress the Duke had acquired in 1400 at the death of Louis d'Évreux, its keep and the surviving Tour Guinette still standing today. Behind the falconry party, the calendar's other August unfolds without pause: reapers cut grain, a cart hauls the harvest, and bathers cool themselves in a stream, one clambering out as another tumbles in — genre comedy tucked into the corner of an aristocratic scene. The zodiac lunette turns Leo into Virgo, the harvest maiden holding her sheaf of wheat. Where July showed the Duke's land feeding his table, August shows his court at leisure upon it — hawking above, harvesting below, the whole social order visible in a single gold-lit field.
- Maker
- The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe
- Date
- c. 1412–1416
- Medium of the original
- Illuminated manuscript
- Original held by
- Musée Condé, Chantilly
- Credit
- Musée Condé, Chantilly · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00917
| Picture | 8 x 12 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 9.6 x 13.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 194 | Good | Trimmed 7.7% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 129 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,555 x 2,526 px, srgb, DonRGB4.icm
- Tone
- Darks 56, lights 231 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.02
- Notes
- Colour profile DonRGB4.icm, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
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