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200 JEAN PERREAL AND BOURDICHON
that there he had the opportunity of study-
ing Fouquet’s miniatures in the Antiquitates
Judceorum, then an heirloom in the Ducal Library.
Like Bourdichon Perreal appears to have had
no taste for landscape, and it was chiefly por-
traiture that attracted him. This branch of art
was, in fact, the prevailing interest of his time, and
that so-called inquietude dtt portrait manifested
itself more or less strongly in the miniature-
painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
until it almost entirely superseded all landscape
work. We find an excellent portrait, for instance,
of Charles F of France in the Heures d'Anjou1 2
and another in the Bible Historieeb
The well-known portrait of Jean le Bon, father of
Charles V of France, in the Biblioth^que Nationale
is considered to be the prototype of French
portraits, and it is therefore not inopportune
to compare it with the later portraiture. It
was discovered by Gaignieres at Oyron, an old
chateau of the Gouffier family, and was the only
painting which the Regent in 1717 thought worth
keeping out of the sale of this collector’s treasures.
It is ascribed to Girard d’Orleans, who is recorded
as having assisted Jean de Coste to decorate the
Chateau de Vaudreuil. Girard is also known to
1 MS. 18014, Bibl. Nat. Paris.
2 There is a portrait of the same monarch in a MS. at The Hague
(copied for Gaignieres) to which is attached a note giving its date and the
name of the artist as a certain Jean de Bruges, who according to M. B.
Prost seems to be identical with Johannes Bandol pictor regis.
that there he had the opportunity of study-
ing Fouquet’s miniatures in the Antiquitates
Judceorum, then an heirloom in the Ducal Library.
Like Bourdichon Perreal appears to have had
no taste for landscape, and it was chiefly por-
traiture that attracted him. This branch of art
was, in fact, the prevailing interest of his time, and
that so-called inquietude dtt portrait manifested
itself more or less strongly in the miniature-
painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
until it almost entirely superseded all landscape
work. We find an excellent portrait, for instance,
of Charles F of France in the Heures d'Anjou1 2
and another in the Bible Historieeb
The well-known portrait of Jean le Bon, father of
Charles V of France, in the Biblioth^que Nationale
is considered to be the prototype of French
portraits, and it is therefore not inopportune
to compare it with the later portraiture. It
was discovered by Gaignieres at Oyron, an old
chateau of the Gouffier family, and was the only
painting which the Regent in 1717 thought worth
keeping out of the sale of this collector’s treasures.
It is ascribed to Girard d’Orleans, who is recorded
as having assisted Jean de Coste to decorate the
Chateau de Vaudreuil. Girard is also known to
1 MS. 18014, Bibl. Nat. Paris.
2 There is a portrait of the same monarch in a MS. at The Hague
(copied for Gaignieres) to which is attached a note giving its date and the
name of the artist as a certain Jean de Bruges, who according to M. B.
Prost seems to be identical with Johannes Bandol pictor regis.