Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Sketchbook formed of six panels of prepared boxwood
France, probably Paris, ca. 1400
MS M.346 fol. 3v

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Five half-figures:
1) Woman, with looped braids framing face, wearing kerchief, closing eye (?) of wild man with her left hand.
2) Wild man, covered with hair, facing left, with right arm around the woman and left arm extended, holds wreath in left hand.
3) Youth (?) with curly hair, facing right.
4) Woman, with looped braids framing face, facing second wild man to right.
5) Wild man, covered with hair, including hair on head standing on end, with right hand, with long nails, raised toward the woman.