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CLOUET, JEAN (d. c. 1541) . French miniature painter, generally known as JANET. The authentic presence of this artist at the French court is first to be noted in 1516, the second year of the reign of Francis I. By a deed of gift made by the king to the artist's son of his father's estate, which had escheated to the crown, we learn that he was not actually a Frenchman, and never even naturalized. He is supposed to have been a native of the Low Countries. and probably his real name was Clowet. His position was that of groom of the chamber to the king, and he received a stipend at first of 18o livres and later of 240. He lived several years in Tours, and there it was he met his wife, who was the daughter of a jeweller. He is recorded as living in Tours in 1522, and there is a reference to his wife's residence in the same town in 1523, but in 1529 they were both settled in Paris, probably in the neighbourhood of the parish of Ste Innocenti, in the cemetery of which they were buried. He stood godfather at a christening on the 8th of July 1540, butwas no longer living in December 1541, and therefore died between those two dates
His brother, known as CLOUET DE NAVARRE, was in the service of Marguerite d' Angouleme , sister of Francis I., and is referred to in a letter written by Marguerite about 1529. Jean Clouet had two children, Francois and Catherine, who married Abel Foulon, and left one son, who continued the profession of Francois Clouet after his decease. Jean Clouet was undoubtedly a very skilful portrait painter, but it must be acknowledged without hesitation that there is no work
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Seven miniature portraits in the Manuscript of the Gallic War in the Bibliotheque Nationale (13,429) are attributed to Janet with very strong probability, and to these may be added an eighth in the collection of Mr J. Pierpont Morgan
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taste , the modelling exceedingly subtle, and the drawing careful, tender and emphatic. The collection of drawings preserved in France, and attributed to this artist and his school, comprises portraits of all the important persons of the time of Francis I. In one album of drawings the portraits are annotated by the king himself', and his merry reflections, stinging taunts or biting satires, add very largely to a proper understanding of the life of his time and court. Definite evidence, however, is still lacking to establish the attribution of the best of these drawings and of certain oil paintings to the Jean Clouet who was groom of the chambers to the king.The chief
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