September

This miniature of grape harvesting at the Chateau de Saumur is the work of two artists. Pol de Limbourg had not completed his work on the September and November pages of the calendar when the Duc de Berry died and the project was halted. For this page, de Limbourg had sketched the whole scene and painted in the castle. When work on the book was resumed sixty-nine years later at the order of the Duc de Savoie, Jean Colombe took up where de Limbourg had left off, painting in the peasants gathering the grapes in the vineyards, which still produce the wines of Saumur.