27, R. wall, portraits
of his royal master. Sons of the junior Jehan were Francois
(1500-1572), the best-known and most talented of the Clouets, who was
naturalised in 1541, and Jehan the younger, known as Clouet de Navarre
(1515-1589), court painter to Margaret of Valois. By the former, who
assisted his father during the last ten years of his life and
succeeded him as court painter, are two admirable portraits, 128 and
129, of Charles IX. and his queen, Elizabeth of Austria; 130, Henry
II., and (on the end wall) 131, the Duke of Guise, are also attributed
to him. To the latter artist is ascribed 134, Louis of St. Gelais.
Each of these elusive personalities, whose Flemish ancestry is
evident, was known as Maitre Jehanet, and much confusion has thus
arisen. We now turn to some portraits by unknown artists of the
period, among which may be noted: 1033, Henry III.; 132, Charles IX.;
1024, Diana of France, legitimised daughter of Henry II.; 1030,
Catherine de' Medici; 1035, Ball given by Henry III. in celebration
of the marriage of his favourite minion, Anne, Duke of Joyeuse, with
Margaret of Lorraine in 1581; the king is seen seated with his mother,
Catherine de' Medici, and his wife, Louise of Lorraine; the Duke of
Guise (le Balafre) leans against his chair. On the same wall are 1015,
Francois, Duke of Guise; and 1007, King Francis I. On the end wall,
1032, Henry III.; by the window opposite, 1022, the young Duke of
Alencon (p. 178), by no means ill-favoured; and 1023, Louise of
Lorraine, queen of Henry III. By a contemporary of the later Clouets,
Jean Cousin (1501-1589), is 155 on the L. wall, The Last Judgment.
Cousin was a versatile craftsman, and some stained glass by him still
exists at S. Gervais and in the chapel at Vincennes. Among other
artists mentioned by Felibien is Martin Freminet (1567-1616), whose
Mercury commanding AEneas to forsake Dido, 304, hangs on the end wall.

[Footnote 213: The late fifteenth-century artist, provisionally known
as the Master of Moulins and also as the Painter of the Bourbons, is
the author of the famous Triptych of the Cathedral of Moulins. Some
critics believe him to be identical with Jehan Perreal (Jehan de
Paris).]

[Footnote 214: _Entretiens sur les Vies et sur les Ouvrages des plus
Excellens Peintres Anciens et Modernes._ Andre Felibien. Paris,
1666-1688.]

[Illustration: THE TRIPTYCH OF MOULINS.

_Maitre de Moulins._]

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA, W