Jean Fouquet

(1425–1478) fransk målare

Jean Fouquet (1425–1478) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a designer. By year of birth, Jean Fouquet belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Jean Fouquet was born in Tours and died in Tours. Jean Fouquet worked in Tours and Rome. Wikidata associates Jean Fouquet with Renaissance. The students included Master of the Munich Boccaccio.

The best-known works include ‘Hours of Étienne Chevalier’, ‘Melun Diptych’, ‘Charles VII, King of France’, and ‘Pietà’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and religious painting. The catalogue has 8 works by Jean Fouquet with free images. The dated works span the years 1444–1461. Works by Jean Fouquet are held by several collections, among them Département des peintures du Louvre, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, and Gemäldegalerie.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Galasso Galassi, Domenico Gagini, Vrancke van der Stockt, Petrus Christus, and Simon Marmion.

• The Renaissance
• Charles VII, King of France
• Portrait of the court jester Gonella
• Portrait of Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins