Jean Fouquet
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Jean Fouquet was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most importa
The burial of Étienne Chevalier
Charles VII as one of the three magi
Entry of Charles V in Paris on 2 August 1358, Grandes Chroniques de France (1455–1460)
Marriage of Charles IV and Marie of Luxembourg
Portrait miniature
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A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting from Renaissance art, usually executed in gouache, watercolour, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures i
Jean Fouquet
…French: ; c. 1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to…
A display case with 18th-century portrait miniatures at the National Museum in Warsaw.
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535–36
Christian Horneman's miniature portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1802).
The future Duke of Wellington in 1808, by Richard Cosway.