CHAPTER XV

JEAN PERRÉAL AND BOURDICHON

Bourdichon's name found upon cartridge-cases made out of old accounts and contracts; the _Prayer-Book_ of Anne de Bretagne and its ornamentation of flowers; Perréal painter to the Duc Pierre de Bourbon; studies Fouquet's work at Moulins; the miniatures of the MS. of _St. Michel_ in the Bibliothèque Nationale attributed to Perréal by Durrieu; affinity between the angels in the MS. and those in the triptych at Moulins; why the original drawings of the _Preux de Marignan_ are likely to be by Jean Perréal rather than by Jean Clouet; the handwriting of Perréal identified on the back of a drawing attributed to him; the Tournois tapestries; Perréal mentioned in the Royal Accounts as Architect and Sculptor; his medals representing _Louis XII_ and _Anne de Bretagne_ in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and in the Wallace Collection.....196