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Jean Cloete (14801541) was a French painter who lived in the European Renaissance.
He was the most prominent of the main painters of Francis I since 1516, and accordingly he achieved great social favor, in terms of salary, prestige, and work with prominent figures in the French court at that period, a status that was often granted to the most prominent poets and scholars at the time.
In the early 1520s, he lived in Tours, and in 1529 in Paris. Early in his career, he painted a series of portraits of himself and religious subjects including “Saint Jerome” and “The Four Evangelists” in 1522.
The works attributed to Chloe consisted of regarding 130 preparatory drawings representing members of the French court between 1514 and 1540, and a group of “manimals” and oil paintings, and accordingly, according to records, he is considered the first French miniature painter of that period.
One of his famous drawings in the art of “miniatures” is one entitled “Charlotte”, which embodies the image of the French Princess Charlotte, daughter of King Francis I of France, and appears in her rich clothes and bejeweled hat, which indicates her high status. Eighth. She also had a rosary in her hand, indicating that she was a Catholic. The occasion of the picture is that European royal families often drew pictures of their children to record moment by moment the stages of their upbringing, and they often also exchanged these pictures with other royal houses as a diplomatic gesture.
Jean Cloete drew portraits of the mathematician Oronce Finney in 1530, when Finney was 36 years old. The time of Francis I.
