Jean Clouet

Jean Clouet painted delicate portraits of French thinkers and officials in the 1500s. His most famous work here is the Portrait of Guillaume Budé, a sharp-eyed rendering of the scholar in fur-trimmed robes. That era prized finely detailed likenesses and symbolic props to show status. Want to see another face from the same world? Tap the portrait of Budé to explore more works from sixteenth-century France.