Jean Fouquet

Jean Fouquet (or Jehan Fouquet, 1420 - 1481) was a French painter.

Life

Jean Fouquet was born in Tours. He is the most representative and national French painter of the 15th century. Of his life little is known, but it is certain that he was in Italy about 1437, where he executed the portrait of Pope Eugenius IV, and that upon his return to France, whilst retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his sojourn in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school. He was court painter to Louis XI.

Related Topics:
Tours - 15th century - Italy - 1437 - Portrait - Pope Eugenius IV - Van Eyck - Louis XI

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