EditorialPortrait of a Man, Circle of Jean Fouquet (French, 1420-1481), about 1460, oil on wood, 9 x 6-3/4 in. (panel) 12-1/8 x 9-7/16 x 1-1/2 in. (framed), European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800.
EditorialGuillaume Jouvenel des Ursins (1401-1472), baron de Trainel, chancellor of France under Charles VII and Louis XI. Detail of ornamental background decoration. Small bear cubs, emblems of the chancellor, support the blazons and animate the decoration aro...
EditorialRenaissance Art. France. Jean Fouquet (1420-1481). French painter. Melun Diptych, oil painting about 1452 by order of Etienne Chevalier. Left wing depicting Etienne Chevalier with his patron St. Stephen. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany.
EditorialLe passage du Rubicon par Cesar-Caesar crossing the Rubicon. Au dessous un texte commencant par: " Cy commence Lucain en suivant sa matiere de Cesar. " Parchment, 44 x 32,5 cm RF 29493 recto.
EditorialPhilippe III le Hardi (1245-1285), French King 1270-1285, captures the castle Foix to avenge the murder of Arnaud, brother of the Count of Armagnac, killed by Girard, master of the fortress of Casanlon. From the Chronique de Saint Denis,15th.
EditorialSelf-portrait of Fouquet (1450), medaillon-copper, enamel, and gold. Only remaining piece of a diptych ordered for the church of Notre-Dame in Melun by Etienne Chevalier, secretary and counsellor to French king Charles VII. Diameter 6.8 cm-OA 56.
EditorialA battle between Romans and Carthaginians, probably the battle of Cannae (216 BCE). Page from a manuscript " Ancient history to Caesar and the deeds of the Romans" much of which has been lost. 1470-1475 Parchment, 44,8 x 33,4 cm. R. F. 7251.