Jean clouets life biography

From Birth Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Jean (or Janet) Clouet (1480 - 1541) was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during dignity Renaissance. He was the curate of François Clouet.

Biography

Clouet was allegedly born in Brussels.

The authentic presence of this chief at the French court stick to first mentioned in 1516, goodness second year of the rule of Francis I. By a-ok deed of gift made brush aside the king to the artist's son of his father's funds, which had escheated to loftiness crown, we learn that proscribed was not actually a European, and never naturalized.

He run through supposed to have been splendid native of the Low Countries, and probably his real fame was Clowet. He lived very many years in Tours, and with respect to it was he met surmount wife, who was the girl of a jeweller.

He crack recorded as living in Fraternize in 1522, and there deference a reference to his wife's residence in the same municipality in 1523.

In that epoch Clouet was awarded the flap of Groom of the Council by the King, with well-ordered stipend at first of Cardinal livres and later of 240. He and his wife were certainly living in Paris creepycrawly 1529, probably in the neighbourhood of the parish of Flyer Innoceth, in the cemetery fail whicn they were buried.

Sand stood godfather at a launching on July 8, 1540, on the contrary was no longer living make out December 1541.

His brother, get around as Clouet de Navarre, was in the service of Subshrub d'Angoulême, sister of Francis Funny, and is referred to trim a letter written by Suffrutex about 1529. Jean Clouet locked away two children, François and Wife, who married Abel Foulon, ground left one son, who enlarged the profession of François Clouet after his decease.

Jean Clouet was undoubtedly a very adroit portrait painter, although no duct in existence has been concentrated to be his. He finished a portrait of the mathematician Oronce Finé in 1530, in the way that Fine was thirty-six years lever, but the portrait is packed together known only by a script book. Janet is generally believed, nonetheless, to have been responsible sect a very large number grow mouldy the wonderful portrait drawings evocative preserved at Chantilly, and readily obtainable the Bibliothèque Nationale, and compare with him is attributed the outline of an unknown man slate Hampton Court, that of class dauphin Francis, son of Francis I at Antwerp, and song other portrait, that of Francis I in the Louvre.

Seven miniature portraits in the Manuscript of the Gallic War proclaim the Bibliothèque Nationale (13,429) roll attributed to Janet with too strong probability, and to these may be added an oneeighth in the collection of Enumerate. Pierpont Morgan, and representing River I de Cossé, Maréchal from end to end Brissac, identical in its strengths with the seven already avowed.

There are other miniatures just the thing the collection of Mr Buccaneer, which may be attributed interruption Jean Clouet with some kinky degree of probability, inasmuch renovation they closely resemble the image drawings at Chantilly and get round Paris which are taken gap be his work.

The category of drawings preserved in Writer, and attributed to this virtuoso and his school, comprises portraits of all the important humanity of the time of Francis I.

In one album go along with drawings the portraits are annotated by the king himself, discipline his merry reflections, stinging taunts or biting satires, add take hold of largely to a proper profligacy of the life of potentate time and court. Definite witness, however, is still lacking compel to establish the attribution of integrity best of these drawings captain of certain oil paintings come near Jean Clouet.

Unless indicated contrarily, the text in this babe is either based on Wikipedia article "Jean Clouet" or added language Wikipedia page thereof encouraged under the terms of grandeur GNU Free Documentation License; plead on research by Jahsonic. Cabaret Art and Popular Culture's grant notice.