CHAPTER XVII

FRANÇOIS CLOUET AND HIS FOLLOWERS

Favoured by Francis I; he adheres at first to parental teaching; _Mary Stuart_ in her girlhood by Germain le Mannier; _Mary Stuart_ as Dauphine and as Queen of France; _Francis II_; _Charles IX_ by François Clouet; his exquisite drawing of _Margot de France_ at Chantilly; portrait of _Pierre Quthe_ at the Louvre; the portrait of _Odet de Coligny_ at Chantilly; _Catherine de Medicis_ as a collector; her handwriting identified on the margins of drawings at Chantilly, and elsewhere; Corneille de Lyon and the _Dauphin François_; Jean de Court court-painter to Henri III; Carron and the brothers Lagneau; Daniel Dumoustier; his portrait of _Henri, Duc de Guise_; the Quesnels, court-painters to the first Bourbon Kings; the painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées and her two sons at Chantilly.....227