Portrait of Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474)
ca. 1451–55
Medium
Metalpoint, black chalk on white prepared paper
Dimensions
7 13/16 x 5 5/16 in. (19.8 x 13.5 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Knower, Bequest of Ogden Mills, and Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, by exchange, 1949
Accession Number
49.38
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Fouquet · 1425–1478
Jean Fouquet (c. 1420–c. 1481), born in Tours, stands as a pivotal figure in French art, excelling as both a panel painter and a miniaturist. Little is known of his early years, but he is regarded as having trained in the Parisian workshops associated with the Bedford Master before journeying to Italy around 1445–1447. There, as the first French artist to encounter the Italian Renaissance firsthan...