Made by Jean Fouquet / Portrait of an Ecclesiastic / ca. 1430-1481

Made by Jean Fouquet
Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
ca. 1430-1481
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Creator Name: Fouquet, Jean
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: French, ca. 1415/20 - before 8 November 1481
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Jean Fouquet
Title: Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1430
Creation End Date: 1481
Creation Date: ca. 1430-1481
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Metalpoint; black chalk on white prepared paper
Dimensions: 7 13/16 x 5 5/16 in. (19.8 x 13.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 49.38
Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Knower, Bequest of Ogden Mills, and Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, by exchange, 1949
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Although the inscription describes the sitter as 'A Roman legate of our Holy Father in France,' there has been no satisfactory identification of this man. This drawing, an outstanding and rare survival of a fifteenth-century French work on paper, is by the painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet. Fouquet was patronized by the highest classes, as his home city of Tours was the preferred residence of the French royal court. In this sheet, the figure is placed to the left in three-quarter view, giving the legate a distance appropriate to his rank. This distance is balanced by the descriptive, sculptural treatment of the face and the psychological characterization therein. Fouquet was one of the first Northern artists to recognize and incorporate the artistic innovations of fifteenth-century Italy into the prevailing Franco-Flemish style, as manifested in the combination of monumentality and descriptive detail seen here. Fouquet's sheet is also an early survival of the portrait drawing genre, which gained great importance and popularity in France in the sixteenth century. In modern times, this drawing has always been considered a masterpiece. When it was sold at auction in 1936, it fetched the highest price paid for a drawing to that date.

AMICA ID: MMA_.49.38
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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