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FOUCQUET, JEAN, or JEHAN (c. 1415–1485)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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 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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