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Jean Fouquet or Jehan Fouquet (1420 - 1481) was the most important France painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and Illuminated manuscript. Life Jean Fouquet was born in Tours. Little is known of his life, but it is certain that he was in Italy about 1437, where he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV (now surviving only in much later copies), and that upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his period in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school. He was court painter to Louis XI of France.

Works Also referred to as Souquet, Jean's supreme excellence as an Illuminated manuscript, the exquisite precision in the rendering of the finest detail, and his power of clear characterization in work on this minute scale, have long since procured him an eminent position in the art of his country; his importance as a painter was fully realized when his portraits and altarpieces were for the first time brought together from various parts of Europe, at the exhibition of the "French Primitives" held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

One of Fouquet's most important paintings is the diptych, formerly at Notre Dame de Melun, of which one wing, depicting Agnès Sorel as the Virgin, is now in Antwerp and the other in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin . The Louvre has his oil portraits of Charles VII of France, of Count Wilczek, and of Guillaume Jouvenal des Ursins, as well as a portrait drawing in crayon; while an authentic portrait from his brush is in the Liechtenstein collection.

His self-portrait miniature would be the earliest sole self-portrait surviving in Western art, if the portrait in the National Gallery, London by Jan van Eyck were not in fact a self-portrait, as most art historians believe it to be.

, 36 BCFar more numerous are his illuminated books and miniature (illuminated manuscript)s that have come down to us. The Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise contains forty miniatures from a Book of Hours, painted in 1461 for Etienne Chevalier who is portrayed by Fouquet on the Berlin wing of the Melun altarpiece. From Fouquet's hand again are eleven out of the fourteen miniatures illustrating a translation of Josephus at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The second volume of this manuscript, unfortunately with only one of the original thirteen miniatures, was discovered and bought in 1903 by Mr Henry Yates Thompson at a London sale, and restored by him to France.

External links

• English version of online exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France but French version here is much fuller
• Fouquet's decorations for the Book of Hours Treasure of the National Library of The Netherlands displayed via The European Library

References

Jean Fouquet or Jehan Fouquet (1420 - 1481) was the most important France painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and Illuminated manuscript. Life Jean Fouquet was born in Tours. Little is known of his life, but it is certain that he was in Italy about 1437, where he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV (now surviving only in much later copies), and that upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his period in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school. He was court painter to Louis XI of France.

Works Also referred to as Souquet, Jean's supreme excellence as an Illuminated manuscript, the exquisite precision in the rendering of the finest detail, and his power of clear characterization in work on this minute scale, have long since procured him an eminent position in the art of his country; his importance as a painter was fully realized when his portraits and altarpieces were for the first time brought together from various parts of Europe, at the exhibition of the "French Primitives" held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

One of Fouquet's most important paintings is the diptych, formerly at Notre Dame de Melun, of which one wing, depicting Agnès Sorel as the Virgin, is now in Antwerp and the other in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin . The Louvre has his oil portraits of Charles VII of France, of Count Wilczek, and of Guillaume Jouvenal des Ursins, as well as a portrait drawing in crayon; while an authentic portrait from his brush is in the Liechtenstein collection.

His self-portrait miniature would be the earliest sole self-portrait surviving in Western art, if the portrait in the National Gallery, London by Jan van Eyck were not in fact a self-portrait, as most art historians believe it to be.

, 36 BCFar more numerous are his illuminated books and miniature (illuminated manuscript)s that have come down to us. The Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise contains forty miniatures from a Book of Hours, painted in 1461 for Etienne Chevalier who is portrayed by Fouquet on the Berlin wing of the Melun altarpiece. From Fouquet's hand again are eleven out of the fourteen miniatures illustrating a translation of Josephus at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The second volume of this manuscript, unfortunately with only one of the original thirteen miniatures, was discovered and bought in 1903 by Mr Henry Yates Thompson at a London sale, and restored by him to France.

External links

• English version of online exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France but French version here is much fuller
• Fouquet's decorations for the Book of Hours Treasure of the National Library of The Netherlands displayed via The European Library

References