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 Francois Clouet Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. of Austria and Infanta Maria of Spain, wife of King Charles Charl oil painting artist
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     Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. of Austria and Infanta Maria of Spain, wife of King Charles Charl
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  Elisabeth_of_Austria,_Queen_of_France,_daughter_of_Holy_Roman_Emperor_Maximilian_II._of_Austria_and_Infanta_Maria_of_Spain,_wife_of_King_Charles_Charl
c. 1571(1571) Medium Oil on oak panel Dimensions 36 x 26 cm (14.2 x 10.2 in) cjr

 Francois Clouet Pierre Quthe oil painting artist
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  Pierre_Quthe
1562(1562) Medium oil on wood cyf

 Francois Clouet Portrait of King Charles IX oil painting artist
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     Portrait of King Charles IX
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  Portrait_of_King_Charles_IX
1561(1561) Medium Oil on wood cyf

 Francois Clouet Diane de Poitiers oil painting artist
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  Diane_de_Poitiers
1571(1571) Medium oil on wood cyf

 Francois Clouet Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre oil painting artist
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  Marguerite_de_Valois,_reine_de_Navarre
16th century Medium oil on panel Dimensions 29 x 22.5 cm (11.4 x 8.9 in) cjr

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    1510-1572 French Francois Clouet Locations The earliest reference to him is a document dated December 1541 (see Jean Clouet), in which the king renounces for the benefit of François his father estate, which had escheated to the crown as the estate of a foreigner. In this document, the younger Clouet is said to have followed his father very closely in his art. Like his father, he held the office of groom of the chamber and painter in ordinary to the king, and so far as salary is concerned, he started where his father left off. Many drawings are attributed to this artist, often without perfect certainty. There is, however, more to go upon than there is in the case of his father. As the praises of Francois Clouet were sung by the writers of the day, his name was carefully preserved from reign to reign, and there is an ancient and unbroken tradition in the attribution of many of his pictures. There are not, however, any original attestations of his works, nor are any documents known which would guarantee the ascriptions usually accepted. To him are attributed the portraits of Francis I at the Uffizi and at the Louvre, and various drawings relating to them. He probably also painted the portrait of Catherine de Medici at Versailles and other works, and in all probability a large number of the drawings ascribed to him were from his hand. One of his most remarkable portraits is that of Mary, queen of Scots, a drawing in chalks in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and of similar character are the two portraits of Charles IX and the one at Chantilly of Marguerite of France. Perhaps his masterpiece is the portrait of Elizabeth of Austria in the Louvre. This piece made an important impression on Claude Levi-Strauss. In particular it helped inspire his theory of the mod??le reduit, or of works of art as simplifications and scale models of the realities they represent, and other theories of artworks, in his book The Savage Mind. Clouet resided in Paris in the rue de Ste Avoye in the Temple quarter, close to the Hotel de Guise, and in 1568 is known to have been under the patronage of Claude Gouffier de Boisy, Seigneur d Oiron, and his wife Claude de Baune. Another ascertained fact concerning Francois Clouet is that in 1571 he was summoned to the office of the Court of the Mint, and his opinion was taken on the likeness to the king of a portrait struck by the mint. He prepared the death-mask of Henry II, as in 1547 he had taken a similar mask of the face and hands of Francis I., in order that the effigy to be used at the funeral might be prepared from his drawings; and on each of these occasions he executed the painting to be used in the decorations of the church and the banners for the great ceremony. Several miniatures are believed to be his work, one very remarkable portrait being the half-length figure of Henry II in the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. Another of his portraits is that of Francois, duc d Alençon in the Jones collection at South Kensington, and certain representations of members of the royal family which were in the Hamilton Palace collection and the Magniac sale are usually ascribed to him. He died on the 22nd of December 1572, shortly after the massacre of St Bartholomew, and his will, mentioning his sister and his two illegitimate daughters, and dealing with the disposition of a considerable amount of property, is still in existence. His daughters subsequently became nuns. His work is remarkable for the extreme accuracy of the drawing, the elaborate finish of all the details, and the exquisite completeness of the whole portrait. He must have been a man of high intelligence, and of great penetration, intensely interested in his work, and with considerable ability to represent the character of his sitter in his portraits. His coloring is perhaps not specially remarkable, nor from the point of style can his pictures be considered especially beautiful, but in perfection of drawing he has hardly any equal.

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