Jean Fouquet
Paris et.al. Hyperion Press, 1940. Softcover. 4to. 269pp. Original stiff wrappers in attached, illustrated dust jacket. Great work on the acclaimed French painter Jean [sometimes spelled Jehan] Fouquet (1420 - 1481).
Fouquet was born in Tours. He is the most important French painter of the 15th century, mastering both large-scale painting and manuscript illumination. Of his life little is known, but it is certain that he was in Italy about 1437, where he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV, and that upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his sojourn in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school. He was court painter to Louis XI.
Magnificently illustrated with 16 full-page color plates of Fouquet and hundreds of b/w plates.lncludes biography of the artist and index. Tear alongside dj spine with browning to dj. Minor tears to edges. In English. In good+ condition. g. Item #16368
From the copyright page: "This volume, edited by Andre Gloeckner was first published in March MCMXL by the Hyperion Press, Paris. COlour Blocks engraved by Etablissement Malvaux, Brussel and Perenchio, Paris. Colour Plates and Text printed by Etablissement Generaux d'Imprimerie. Photograveure engraved and printed by Soc. Anon. de Rotogravure. Binding by Aug. Meersman, Brussels."
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