Claude of France was the Queen Anne and Mary Boleyn served during their time at the French court. Her prayer book went on display at the Morgan Library & Museum back in May.
From the article:
In May, a tiny, exquisite volume went on display at the Morgan Library & Museum: a prayer book made for Queen Claude of France, who was born in the penultimate year of the fifteenth century. Claude, a near-contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who served her at the French court as a prepubescent lady-in-waiting, was betrothed at the age of six to her cousin Fran
Thanks for posting this! The prayer-book was said to be put together in 1517, when biographers think Anne and Mary were still at the French court. Possibly, if Queen Claude is used as the model for the Virgin, some of the pages that show young attendant women might include a Boleyn …? But the painted image of Claude doesn’t much resemble her description, so even if one of the Boleyns was immortalized it would be difficult to identify her (particularly Anne … all the ladies in the book are fair-haired.)
This is very cool! I will definitely try to put this on my ‘one more reason I should go to the city’ list.
thanks for posting
You can see the entire book online at:
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/claude.asp
Oops, sorry, didn’t realize a link to the book was embedded in the article.