The Hours of Philip the Bold

Dreux Jean

Artists

Dreux Jean, active c. 1430-1467, was Philip the Good’s valet de chambre and illuminator. The Duke entrusted him with numerous additions to the Grandes Heures and with its rebinding in two volumes – responsibilities for which the artist was paid 10 livres and 16 sous in 1451. Dreux Jean painted the miniatures of St Remigius (fol. 238v) and St Anne (fol. 256r), the only two images to include Philip the Good’s devices.

This 15th-century miniature was painted by Dreux Jean, Philip the Bold’s valet de chambre and illuminator, who was entrusted by the Duke with numerous additions to the Grandes Heures as well as its rebinding in two volumes in 1451. The blue canopy above St Remigius and the frame display Philip the Bold’s devices: the double ‘e’ monogram and the golden fusils and flints of the Order of the Golden Fleece.