. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ofFrancis I., are attributed to Jean Clouet, or Jehannet as thiselusive personality is sometimes known ; Nos. 128 and 129,two admirable portraits of Charles IX. and his queen Elizabethof Austria, to Frangois Clouet ; No. 134, a portrait of Louisde St. Gellais, is ascribed to Clouet of Navarre. Otherportraits executed at this period will be found on the walls,and are of profound interest to the student of French history. The two years sojourn in France of Solario, at theinvitation of the Cardinal dAmboise, of
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ofFrancis I., are attributed to Jean Clouet, or Jehannet as thiselusive personality is sometimes known ; Nos. 128 and 129,two admirable portraits of Charles IX. and his queen Elizabethof Austria, to Frangois Clouet ; No. 134, a portrait of Louisde St. Gellais, is ascribed to Clouet of Navarre. Otherportraits executed at this period will be found on the walls,and are of profound interest to the student of French history. The two years sojourn in France of Solario, at theinvitation of the Cardinal dAmboise, of Da Vinci atthe solicitation of Louis XII., and the foundation of theschool of Fontainebleau by Rosso and Primaticcio, mark theeclipse of whatever schools of French painting were thenexisting, for the grand manner and dramatic power of the M. Lafenestrc, the Director of the Louvre, informs the writer thathe sees no sufficient reason at present for modifying the traditionalattributions of the pictures loaned by the Louvre to the Exhibition ofthe Primitifs in the Pavilion de THE LOUVRE 311 Italians, fostered by royal patronage, carried all before Rosso, known to the French as Maitre Roux, theLouvre has a Pieta and a classical subject—The Challenge ofthe Pierides (Nos. 1485 and i486). Primaticcio is repre-sented by some admirable drawings. But the sterility ofthe Fontainebleau school may be inferred from the fact thatwhen Marie de Medici desired to have the Luxembourgdecorated with the events in the life of Henry IV., her Jatehusband, she was compelled to apply to a foreigner— Vouet (1590-1649), who is important as the leaderof the new French school of the seventeenth century, theLouvre has some dozen examples, among them being hismasterpiece (No. 971)—The Presentation at the a passing attention on the lesser masters, andpausing to appreciate the works of the three brothers LeNain, who stand pre-eminent for the healthy, sturdysimplic
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