[69] At the sale of the collection of Mr. Robert Hoe in New York there
came to light another example of Bourdichon's skill in the _Hours of
Anne de Beaujeu_.
[70] _MS. 18014_, Bibl. Nat. Paris.
[71] There is a portrait of the same monarch in a MS. at The Hague
(copied for Gaignières) 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_.
[72] The three others, representing _Edward III_, _Charles IV of
Germany_, and _Charles, Duke of Normandy_ (afterwards Charles V of
France), have unfortunately disappeared.
[73] _The Magi with the Portraits of Edward III and Queen Philippa as
Donors._
[74] _History of Art in England_ (Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition,
1909).
[75] Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
[76] A _chef d'oeuvre_ of French miniature-painting during the reign
of Charles VIII (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
[77] See Plate LII.
[78] _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, June 1907.
[79] Louise M. Richter, _Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft_, July 1909.
[80] See Plate L.
[81] See Plate LII.
[82] See Plate XLIX.
[83] _Lettres de Louis XII, Nouvelle citè de l'Heptameron._
[84] See Plate II.
[85] See Plate LII.
[86] _MS. Fr._ 20,490, fo. 6. These autographs display elegance in
handwriting; and one of them refers to a mission with which Perréal
was entrusted by Anne de Beaujeu, wife of Pierre de Bourbon, to fetch
back the diamonds which she had deposited with Madame du Plessis Bourré
during the Civil War. The Court of Moulins at that time was known as
a centre of art and literature under the auspices of the cultured
daughter of Louis XI.
[87] Among the drawings attributed to Fouquet the _Papal Legate_,
formerly in the Heseltine Collection, is the best known.
[88] Called "of Navarre" because he worked for Marguerite de Valois,
Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I. The portrait of _Louis de
Saint-Gelais_ in the Louvre (1513-39), of which a drawing is in the
British Museum, is attributed to him.
[89] See Plate LIII.
[90] _Plusiers portraits et effigies au vif qu'il a faictes_, Laborde,
_La Renaissance_, p. 15.
[91] Laborde, _Comptes des Bâtiments_, III, p. 237.
[92] See Plate LV.
[93] See Plate LVI.
[94] See Plate LXII.
[95] Formerly in the Heseltine Collection.
[96] I am indebted for this information to Sir Sidney Colvin.
[97] See Plate LVII.
[98] See Plate LVIII.
[99] See Plate LIV.
[100] See Plate LXI.
[101] See Plate LXII.
[102] See Plate LXI.
[103] See Plate LVII.
[104] Cf. _The Life of Benvenuto Cellini_. A new version by Robert H.
Hobart Cust (London: George Bell & Sons, 1910).
[105] A town which formed part of her own dowry.
[106] See Plate LIX.
[107] See Plate LX.
[108] See Plate LV.
[109] Admirable portraits of this same _Sieur de Canaples_, whose wife
was one of the _Petite Bande_ of Francis I, are in the British Museum
(Salting Collection) and at the Albertina, Vienna.
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