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FRANCOIS CLOUET (d. 1572)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 560 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS See also:CLOUET (d. 1572)  , See also:French See also:miniature painter . The earliest reference to him is the document dated See also:December 1541 (see See also:CLOUET, See also:JEAN), in which the See also:king renounces for the benefit of the artist his See also:father's See also:estate which had escheated to the See also:crown as the estate of a foreigner . In it the younger See also:Janet is said to have " followed his father very closely in the See also:science of his See also:art." Like his father, he held the See also:office of See also:groom of the chamber and painter in See also:ordinary to the king, and so far as See also:salary is concerned, he started where his father See also:left off . A See also:long See also:list of drawings contains those which are attributed to this artist, but we still lack perfect certainty about his See also:works . There is, however, more to go upon than there was in the See also:case of his father, See also:Common Ci . S . Hazy „ Ribbon Flocculent Ci.-S . Speckle See also:cloud . Hazy Ci. cu . See also:Mackerel See also:sky . See also:Turret cloud . High See also:ball cumulus .

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Flat See also:alto-cum . See also:Roll cloud . Fall cloud . Small cumulus . Large cumulus . See also:Storm cloud . a as the praises of See also:Francois Clouet were sung by the writers of the See also:day, his name was carefully preserved from reign to reign, and there is an See also:ancient and unbroken tradition in the attribution of many of his pictures . There are not, however, any See also:original attestations of his works, nor are any documents known which would See also:guarantee the ascriptions usually accepted . To him are attributed the portraits of See also:Francis I. at the Uffizi and at the Louvre, and various drawings See also:relating to them . He probably also painted the portrait of See also:Catherine de' See also:Medici at See also:Versailles and other works, and in all See also:probability a large number of the drawings ascribed to him were from his See also:hand . One of his most remarkable portraits is that of See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots, a See also:drawing in chalks in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and of similar See also:character are the two portraits of See also:Charles IX. and the one at See also:Chantilly of See also:Marguerite of See also:France . Perhaps his masterpiece is the portrait of See also:Elizabeth of See also:Austria in the Louvre .

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Paris in the See also:rue de Ste Avoye in the See also:Temple See also:quarter, See also:close to the Hotel de See also:Guise, and in 1568 is known to have been under the patronage of See also:Claude See also:Gouffier de Boisy, Seigneur d'See also:Oiron, and his wife Claude de Baune . Another ascertained fact concerning Francois Clouet is that in 1571 he was " summoned to the office of the See also:Court of the See also:Mint," and his See also:opinion was taken on the likeness to the king of a portrait struck by the mint . He prepared the See also:death-See also:mask of See also:Henry II., as in 1547 he had taken a similar mask of the See also:face and hands of Francis I., in See also:order that the effigy to be used at the funeral might be prepared from his drawings; and on each of these occasions he executed the See also:painting to be used in the decorations of the See also:church and the See also:banners for the See also:great ceremony . Several miniatures are believed 'to be his See also:work, one very remarkable portrait being the See also:half-length figure of Henry II. in the collection of Mr J . Pierpont See also:Morgan . Another of his portraits is that of the duc d'See also:Alencon in the See also:Jones collection at See also:South See also:Kensington, and certain representations of members of the royal See also:family which were in the See also:Hamilton See also:Palace collection and the Magniac See also:sale are usually ascribed to him . He died on the 22nd of December 1572, shortly after the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew, and his will, mentioning his See also:sister and his two illegitimate daughters, and dealing with the disposition of a considerable amount of See also:property, is still in existence . His daughters subsequently became nuns . His work is remarkable for the extreme accuracy of the drawing, the elaborate finish of all the details, and the exquisite completeness of the whole portrait . He must have been a See also:man of high intelligence, and of great penetration, intensely interested in his work, and with considerable ability to represent the character of his sitter in his portraits . His colouring is perhaps not specially remarkable, nor from the point of See also:style can his pictures be considered specially beautiful, but in perfection of drawing he has hardly any equal . To See also:Monsieur See also:Louis Dimier, the leading authority upon his works, and to his See also:volume on French Painting in the Sixteenth See also:Century, as well as to the works of MM .

Bouchot, La Borde and Maulde-La Claviere, the See also:

present writer is indebted for the See also:information contained in this See also:article . (G . C .

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