Jean Clouet was undoubtedly a very skillful
portrait painter, although no work in existence has been proved to be his. He
painted a portrait of the mathematician Oronce Finé in 1530, when Fine was
thirty-six years old, but the portrait is now known only by a print. Jean is
generally believed, however, to have been responsible for a very large number
of the wonderful portrait drawings now preserved at Chantilly, and at the
Bibliothèque Nationale, and to him is attributed the portrait of an unknown man
at Hampton Court, that of the dauphin Francis, son of Francis I at Antwerp, and
one other portrait, that of Francis I in the Louvre.
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