May — The Green Ride
The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe, c. 1412–1416
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 247 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 3.5% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A procession of aristocrats on horseback, dressed head to toe in the traditional May green, ride out from a city gate to the sound (we may imagine) of hunting horns — a courtly custom of welcoming spring known across late-medieval Europe. Trumpeters lead the column; ladies ride sidesaddle in flower crowns; the whole page moves with a lateral energy unusual in the calendar's otherwise more static compositions. Some art historians read individual riders as portraits of the French royal court, though none are firmly identified. The zodiac lunette shows Taurus giving way to Gemini. Of all twelve months, May is the calendar's purest expression of aristocratic pleasure, untroubled by labor or symbol alike.
- 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-00910
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 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 | 494 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.5% |
| 12 x 18 in | 329 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.5% |
| 16 x 24 in | 247 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.5% |
| 20 x 30 in | 197 | Good | Trimmed 3.5% |
| 24 x 36 in | 164 | Good | Trimmed 3.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,953 x 6,144 px, srgb, Generic RGB Profile
- Tone
- Darks 56, lights 219 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 83
- Notes
- Colour profile Generic RGB Profile, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
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