biography
| name: |
Clouet, Jean
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also found as Jehan or Janet
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pronunciation:
[klooay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1485–1540/1)
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| biography:
| French portrait painter, the son of Jehan Clouet the Elder. He was a Flemish painter who moved to France as court painter to the Duke of Burgundy. He arrived in Paris some time after 1525 and became court painter to Francis I. His portraits were all in the Flemish tradition and of a very high quality. His works include ‘Guillaume Budé’, and others are exhibited in the Musée Condé, Chantilly. |
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