the hands of Christ; 996, a Pieta on the L. wall has also been
attributed to Malouet. 999, L. wall, a portrait group of Jean Jouvenal
des Ursins and his family, by an unknown fifteenth-century artist, is
admirable in execution and important for contemporary costumes. Below
(1005A) is the fine picture so admired in the exhibition of the
Primitifs in 1904 by the Maitre de Moulins,[213] St Mary Magdalen and
Donatrix, eminently French in feeling. 1004 and 1005, portraits of the
Duke and Duchess of Bourbon, are now catalogued under this master's
name. The realistic Pieta (1001B) on the L. wall is assigned to the
school of Nicholas Froment of the papal city of Avignon. 288 and 289
at either end of the R. wall, portraits of Guillaume Jouvenal des
Ursins and of Charles VII., are by the well-known Jehan Fouquet of
Tours, who unites the gentleness of the Tuscan school with the
vivacity of the Gallic temperament. 998D, Virgin and Donors, is now
tentatively ascribed to the Master of the Legend of St. Ursula. We
next note a Crucifixion, the famous altar-piece (998A) of the
Parlement of Paris recently transferred from the Palais de Justice. To
the L. are St. Louis and the Baptist, R., St. Denis and Charlemagne;
in the background are seen the old Louvre and the abbey of St.
Germain. 998C is a similar altar-piece from St. Germain des Pres,
painted about 1490, Descent of the Cross; in the background are other
representations of the old Louvre, St. Germain and Montmartre. 304A,
portraits of good King Rene and his second wife Jeanne de Laval, by
Nicholas Froment of Avignon. (1001D) St. Helena and the Miracle of the
Cross, by an unknown artist, about 1480. R. of entrance, Christ, St.
Agricola and Donor, school of Avignon; below this hangs 997A, portrait
of the sinister Jean sans Peur, and 997B, portrait of Philip le Bon of
Burgundy, artist unknown. We pass to

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which contains a series of most interesting historical portraits.
Among the sixteenth-century painters cited by Felibien,[214] the
Vasari of French painting, most of whom are but names to us, we may
distinguish the Clouet family of four generations. The senior Jehan,
born in Flanders in 1420, came to France in 1460 as painter to the
Duke of Burgundy. His son, also, named Jehan, figures in the Royal
accounts in 1528 as valet and court painter to Francis I., and was
known as Maitre Jehan or Jehanet. To him, an artist of great
simplicity and charm, are attributed 126 and 1