Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux is an illuminated Book of hours. It was created between 1324 and 1328 by Jean Pucelle for Jeanne d'Evreux, the third wife of Charles IV of France. Adolphe de Rothschild of Geneva acquired the book at the 19th century. On his death in 1900, it was left it to his nephew Maurice de Rothschild in Paris. The Germans confiscated the book in 1940 during the occupation of France and sent it to Neuschwanstein castle in Germany. It was restored to its owner in 1948 and Maurice de Rothschild sold it in 1954 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where it is now part of the collection held at The Cloisters.