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Grape Harvest

By Melissa Snell, About.com Guide

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Grape Harvest

Folio 9v: the calendar page for September of Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

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The Château de Saumur (which belonged to a nephew of the Duc de Berry, Duc Louis II d'Anjou) dominates this scene of peasants harvesting grapes. The upper two-thirds of the scene was painted by the Limbourg brothers; the rest was finished by Jean Colombe about 70 years later.
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