Jean Fouquet, born c 1420 and died between 1478 and 1481, was a French painter and manuscript illuminator associated with Tours. Little is known about his training. He traveled to Italy early in his career and painted a now-lost portrait of Pope Eugenius IV in Rome.
Fouquet worked for members of the French royal court, including Charles VII and the royal treasurer Étienne Chevalier. He combined French and Netherlandish traditions with forms encountered in Italy, working in panel painting, portraiture, painted enamel, and manuscript illumination. His major commissions included the Melun Diptych, the Étienne Chevalier Hours, and the Grandes Chroniques de France.
Fouquet spent his later career in Tours and was appointed painter to Louis XI. Surviving works are held by the Louvre Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
Self-Portrait Medallion, c 1452–1455
Painted enamel and gold on copper, 2.8 in diameter
Louvre Museum, Paris
The Court Jester Gonella, c 1440–1445
Oil on oak panel, 14.2 × 9.4 in
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Charles VII, King of France, c 1445–1450
Oil on oak panel, 33.7 × 27.8 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim, c 1450
Oil on panel, 36.2 × 32.9 in
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, c 1450–1460
Oil on oak panel, 36.6 × 28.8 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Étienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen, c 1455
Oil on oak panel, 36.6 × 33.5 in
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Pietà, c 1460–1465
Oil on walnut panel, 57.4 × 93.3 in
Church of Saint Martin, Nouans-les-Fontaines
Charles V’s Entry into Paris, c 1455–1460
Illumination on parchment, 18.1 × 13.7 in
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Coronation of Charles VI, c 1455–1460
Illumination on parchment, 18.1 × 13.7 in
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Homage of Edward I to Philip the Fair, c 1455–1460
Illumination on parchment, 18.1 × 13.7 in
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Portrait of Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474), c 1451–1455
Metalpoint and black chalk on white prepared paper, 7.8 × 5.3 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portrait of Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, c 1460
Black and colored chalk on paper, 10.5 × 7.7 in
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
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