y's beauty, the King sent his painter, who was
called John of Paris, (3) that he might make and bring him a living
portrait of her, which, with her husband's consent, he did. And when she
had long done penance, the gentleman, in his desire to have offspring,
and in the pity that he felt for his wife who had submitted to this
penance with so much humility, took her back again and afterwards had by
her many handsome children. (4)

3 John Perreal, called "Jehan de Paris," was one of the
most famous painters of the reigns of Charles VIII. and
Louis XII. At the end of 1496 we find him resident at Lyons,
and there enjoying considerable celebrity. From October 1498
to November 1499 he figures in the roll of officers of the
royal household, as valet of the wardrobe, with a salary of
240 livres. In the royal stable accounts for 1508 he appears
as receiving ten livres to defray the expense of keeping a
horse during June and July that year. He is known to have
painted the portrait and planned the obsequies of Philibert
of Savoy in 1509; to have been sent to England in 1514 to
paint a portrait of the Princess Mary, sister of Henry
VIII., who married Louis XII.; and in 1515 to have had
charge of all the decorative work connected with Louis
XII.'s obsequies. In his _Legende des Venitiens_ (1509) John
Le Maire de Belges praises Perreal's skill both in landscape
and portrait painting, and describes him as a most
painstaking and hardworking artist. He had previously
referred to him in his _Temple d'Honneur et de Vertu_ (1504)
as being already at that period painter to the King. In the
roll of the officers of Francis I.'s household (1522)
Perreal's name takes precedence of that of the better known
Jehannet Clouet, but it does not appear in that of 1529,
about which time he would appear to have died. Shortly
before that date he had designed some curious initial
letters for the famous Parisian printer and bookseller,
Tory. The Claud Perreal, "Lyonnese," whom Clement Marot
commemorates in his 36th _Rondeau_ would appear to have been
a relative, possibly the son, of "Jehan de Paris."--See Leon
de La Borde's _Renaissance des Arts_, vol. i., Pericaud
aine's _Notice sur Jean de Paris_, Lyons, 1858, and more
particularly E. M. Bancel's _Jehan Perreal dit Jean de
Paris, peintre et