Les Quatre États de la Société: Rich State
by BOURDICHON, Jean, Manuscript (Mn.mas 90-93), 174 x 130 mm
This miniature is from a series entitled Les Quatre �tats de la Soci�t� (The Four Social Conditions), and probably painted to illustrate a moralizing tract. It provides a glimpse of daily life in a noble household in the early years of the sixteenth century.