Jean Fouquet belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Jean Fouquet as French painter (c. 1420–1481).
Jean Fouquet was born at Tours in 1425. His recorded nationality is France.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, illuminator and designer.
His recorded movement is renaissance.
Among his best-known works are Hours of Étienne Chevalier, Melun Diptych and Charles VII, King of France. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean Fouquet died in 1478, aged 53. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Hours of Étienne Chevalier
- Notable work: Melun Diptych
- Notable work: Charles VII, King of France
- Notable work: Pietà
- Movement: Renaissance
