Jean Fouquet From Histoire Ancienne(after 1470)
Vellum,17 1/2 x 13 1/2''(45 x 34 cm.)Cabinet des Dessins entered the Louvre in 1921 The Battle between the Romans and the Carthaginians (mk05) French
1420-1479
Jean Fouquet Locations
French painter and illuminator. He is regarded as the most important French painter of the 15th century and was responsible for introducing Italian Renaissance elements into French painting. Little is known of his life, and, apart from a signed self-portrait medallion (Paris, Louvre), his only authenticated work is the Antiquit?s judaeques (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 247). A corpus of works by Fouquet has therefore been established on the basis of stylistic criteria, but its exact chronology is uncertain.
