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Jean & Francois Clouet

Door Etienne Jollet

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#279609
Titel
Jean & Francois Clouet
Auteur
Jollet, Etienne
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Lagune
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
0500974659
ISBN13
9780500974650
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Jean and Francois Clouet. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Picture research Isabelle d'Hauteville and Corinne Point. First Edition. Paris, Lagune, 1997. 25cm x 33cm. 318 (2) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for Example; The 'Clouet Formula'. Clouet Portraits and the Play of Appearance at the Court of France. Portraits in the Singular. Jean (or Janet) Clouet (1480–1541) was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet. Clouet may have been born in the Netherlands region around Valenciennes. The authentic presence of this artist at the French court is first mentioned in 1516, the ... (Lees verder)second year of the reign of Francis I. By a deed of gift made by the king to the artist's son of his father's estate, which had escheated to the crown, we learn that he was not actually a Frenchman, and never naturalized. He is supposed to have been a native of the Low Countries, and probably his real name was Clowet. He lived several years in Tours, and there it was he met his wife, who was the daughter of a jeweller. He is recorded as living in Tours in 1522, and there is a reference to his wife's residence in the same town in 1523. In that year Clouet was awarded the position of Groom of the Chamber by the King, with a stipend at first of 180 livres and later of 240. He and his wife were certainly living in Paris in 1529, probably in the neighborhood of the parish of Ste Innoceth, in the cemetery of whicn they were buried. He stood godfather at a christening on 8 July 1540, but was no longer living in December 1541. His brother, known as Clouet de Navarre, was in the service of Marguerite d'Angoulême, sister of Francis I, and is referred to in a letter written by Marguerite about..
Pagina's
318
Conditie
Goed — Part front dust jacket sunned.
Prijs
€ 150,00

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