Francois Clouet FRANCISCO I KING OF FRANCE
CARALINA DE MEDICIS
CARLOS
IX SON OF CATALINA
KING OF FRANCE FRANCISCO I
MARIA STUART
QUEEN ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA FRANCE
CATALINA DE MEDICIS
CATALINA DE MEDICIS
ENRIQUE II REY DE FRANCIA
Marguerite de Navarre
daughter Marguerite de Valois Catherine de Medicis
MARGARITA NAVARRA
FRANCISCO I KING OF FRANCE
** Francois Clouet Jean Clouet
Son, Flemish painter active in France. François's artistic training was by his father, who inherited the nickname "Janet." In 1540 his place as official painter to the court of Francis I. After the death of the monarch continued to work for the royal house of Valois, for which he painted and drew mainly portraits, his drawings were highly prized by Catherine de Medici, who collected in albums such images. Of this stage are the representations of Henry II, Catherine de Medici and Fran cisco II, all preserved in Paris, in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, and which appreciates the teachings of his father. His drawings became so famous that Pierre de Ronsard and other poets have dedicated poems praising their skills as a draftsman. In his paintings dominated the formal court portrait itself, with examples such as Henry II (Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi) and Charles IX (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), which have been compared with works of great portrait painters such as Antonio Moro Jacob Seisnegger. His best known composition, Lady in the bathroom, is preserved in the National Gallery in Washington. In the box, you can probably represent Diana de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II, or Marie Touchet, mistress of Charles IX, François Clouet combines with great originality, notes, courtesans with others in realistic mood. François Clouet not only devoted to portraiture, but he also painted landscapes and allegorical Diana's Bath, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. At the end of his life, in 1572, commissioned by the Valois and because of the actual engagement between Margaret Valois and Henry of Navarre, took out a large decorative project, which is not retained, and which was aided two of his disciples, and Pierre Jean Decourt Gourdelle
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