Watching slides in Sido's Gallery, they observed images from the prayer book that Anne of Brittany commissioned from Jean Poyer, who painted for the courts of Charles VIII and Louis XII. But they did not think that Poyer was the Master of the Music Box Book of Hours. "The artist we seek portrayed St John as if he was on the coverof a paperback romance," Sido commented.

They looked at the work of Georges Trubert, who may have initially studied in Tours with Bourdichon, but worked in Provence at the court of Loire Valley-born Duke Rene. In Trubert's St. John, in the waters off the coast of Patmos, there were ships surrounded by schools of fish. But because of the way he painted St. John himself, neither Sido nor Caydance thought that Trubert was the artist they sought. "Perhaps the artist we seek was an adventurer, who worked the fishing vessels that sailed unheralded from France and Portugal to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland," Sido suggested.

"Perhaps, he was a Breton fisherman, and while Charles ignored the New World, and noisily prepared to take his Army over the border to Italy, Anne listened to the tales that the Master of the Music Box Book of Hours told -- of fishing the waters off the coast of the New World and the surprising animals he saw on the shore of the place that became Acadia."