CHAPTER XIV

JEAN FOUQUET OF TOURS

Court-Painter to Charles VII and Louis XI; inspired by the work of the Limbourgs; a similar inclination for landscapes in his backgrounds; Etienne Chevalier, Treasurer of France, his patron; the forty miniatures by Fouquet at Chantilly; Fouquet well known in Italy as a painter; commissioned to make a portrait of _Pope Eugenius IV_; mentioned by Vasari; his impressions in Italy shown in the miniatures at Chantilly and in the MS. of the _Antiquitates Judæorum_; his strong individuality; his sense of humour and other characteristics.....179