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Saint Catherine in her Study by The Limbourg Brothers, 1405–1408/9, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
The Book of Hours

Saint Catherine in her Study

Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416)

1405–1408/9 · Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters

For Saint Catherine of Alexandria · 25 November

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image 7.3×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet

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About this painting

Saint Catherine sits alone in a great church with a book open on her desk, and beside her a tiered stand holds more books, nearly as tall as she is. The Met calls the scene unprecedented, a woman studying alone in a great ecclesiastical space, seen through a double arcade. The Limbourg brothers balance her figure against the bookstand, the Met says, to equate her with learning itself, and set images of Moses on both the altar and the stand. The page opens the longest saint's cycle in the manuscript; its border, the richest of the set, marks it as the frontispiece. Somewhere tonight a student leaves the lamp on.

Sources: The Met's own folio commentary for fol. 15r (The Art of Illumination exhibition site), read 2026-09-02 · Timothy Husband, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) — the full-manuscript exhibition catalogue

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The Record
Date 1405–1408/9
Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Subject The Book of Hours
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,662 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters · 54.1.1a, b

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416)
Date 1405–1408/9
Medium Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Dimensions 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm)
Holding The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters · 54.1.1a, b

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source DP257044.jpg
Master 3,662 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistHerman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416)
Date1405–1408/9
MuseumThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Accession54.1.1a, b
MediumInk, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Dimensions9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm)
Sheet sizes8×10 in, 11×14 in
Provenance of the file
Held byThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters · 54.1.1a, b the museum’s record
Source fileThe Met’s own open-access file
Licencepublic domain; the file released under CC0
Master2,663 × 3,662 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from The Met’s own open-access file; held as our print master.

The sheets

8×10 in sheet 8×10 in · image 7.3×10 in · archival margin · 366 dpi
11×14 in sheet 11×14 in · image 10.2×14 in · archival margin · 262 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,662 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.