See also:FOUCQUET, See also:JEAN, or JEHAN (c. 1415–1485)
, See also:French painter, See also:born at See also:Tours, is the most representative and See also:national French painter of the 15th See also:century
.
Of his See also:life little is known, but it is certain that he was in See also:Italy about 1437, where he executed the portrait of See also:Pope See also:Eugenius IV., and that upon his return to See also:France, whilst retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan See also:style, which he had acquired during his sojourn in Italy, upon the style of the See also:Van Eycks, which was the basis of See also:early 15th-century French See also:art, and thus became the founder of an important new school
.
He was See also:court painter to See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI
.
Though his supreme excellence as an illuminator and miniaturist, of exquisite precision in the rendering of the finest detail, and his See also:power of clear characterization in See also:work on this See also:minute See also:scale, have See also:long since procured him an eminent position in the art of his See also:country, his importance as a painter was only realized when his portraits and altarpieces were for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time brought together from various parts of See also:Europe in 1904, at the See also:exhibition of the French Primitives held at the Bibliotheque Nationale in See also:Paris
.
One of See also:Foucquet's most important paintings is the See also:diptych, formerly at Notre See also:Dame de See also:Melun, of which one wing, depicting See also:Agnes See also:Sorel as the Virgin, is now at the See also:Antwerp Museum and the other in the See also:Berlin See also:Gallery
.
The Louvre has his oil portraits of See also:Charles VII., of See also:Count Wilczek, and of Jouvenal See also:des Ursine, besides a portrait See also:drawing in See also:crayon; whilst an See also:authentic portrait from his See also:brush is in the See also:Liechtenstein collection
.
Far more numerous are his illuminated books and miniatures that have come down to us
.
The See also:Brentano-Laroche collection at See also:Frankfort contains See also:forty miniatures from a See also:Book of See also:Hours, painted in 1461 for See also:Etienne See also:Chevalier who is portrayed by Foucquet on the Berlin wing of the Melun altarpiece
.
From Foucquet's See also:hand again are eleven out of the fourteen miniatures illustrating a See also:translation of See also:Josephus at the Bibliotheque Nationale
.
The second See also:volume of this MS., unfortunately with only one of the See also:original thirteen miniatures, was discovered and bought in 1903 by Mr See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Yates See also:Thompson at a See also:London See also:sale, and restored by him to France
.
See fEuvres de Jehan Foucquet (Curmer, Paris, 1866—1867) ; A. de See also:Champeaux and P
.
Gauchery, Euvres d'art executees pour le duc de See also:Berry; ` Facsimiles of two histories by See also:Jean Foucquet " from vols. i. and ii. of the Anciennetes des _Tuffs (London, 19o2); Charles See also:Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes See also:les ecoles (introduction) ; and Georges Lafenestre, Jehan See also:Fouquet (Paris, 1902)
.
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