Jean Clouet

Jean Clouet, also known as Janet (* 1480, † 1541 in Paris) was a French painter of the Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet.

Life

Clouet possibly came from Brussels ( and was originally called may Cloet ). His work on the French king Francis I. Hof is the first time in 1516 occupied ( this year he appeared in the list of court painter to ). For a donation of King Francois Clouet at ( Clouet's legacy had fallen to the crown ) shows that Clouet was not a French citizen. He lived for several years in Tours ( a residence in 1522 is busy), where he met his wife, the daughter of a jeweler was. He was since 1533 valet and painter at the court of Francis I. and lived since 1529 in Paris at the latest.

In addition to his son François, who in 1540 became his successor as royal court painter, he had a daughter Catharine (∞ Abel Foullon ). His brother Clouet de Navarre was a painter in the service of Margaret of Angoulême, sister of Francis I. Jean Clouet also painted her portrait (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1530 ).

He lay on the no longer existing Cimetière des Innocents buried and possibly lived near the church of St. Innocents associated.

Jean Clouet was both a portrait painter and miniaturist. His paintings include a aufbewahrtes in the Louvre Portrait of Francis I ( which is usually assumed that François Clouet participated to it), a portrait of Francis II as Dauphin in Antwerp, a portrait of Guillaume Budé ( 1536, Metropolitan Museum ) a portrait of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise ( Museum Pitti ), Francis I on Horseback (Uffizi ), Charlotte (daughter of Francis I., private property), by Louis de Nevers ( Museum Bergamo) and the image of an unknown ( the man with the Petrarca - band, Royal Collection Hampton Court ). A portrait of Oronce Fine by 1530 is passed down only through prints. However, there are a number of portrait drawings obtained from the collection of Catherine de Medici ( Castle Chantilly, Musée Condé ). About these drawings many paintings Jean Clouet could be assigned.

Often, a direct influence of the portraits of Charles VII ( 1445, Louvre) by Jean Fouquet Jean Clouet and on whose portrait of Francis I is assumed.

Several of his miniature portraits of war from the period around 1520 have been preserved in a commentary on the Gallic.