Apparently such things typically have December as slaughtering-of-the-pig? But a boar is so much more Germanically seasonal. I love the decadent flat ultramarines in this -- actually it's cool how little the palette varies from the pigments they clearly used. Ultramarine, yellow ochre, burnt sienna...
in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar
https://www.wikiart.org/en/limbourg-brothers/facsimile-of-december-hunting-wild-boar
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