Portrait of an Ecclesiastic, ca. 1461, Metalpoint, black chalk on white prepared paper, 7 13/16 x 5 5/16 in. (19.8 x 13.5 cm.), Drawings, Jean Fouquet (French, Tours ca. 1425–ca. 1478 Tours), Although the inscription describes the sitter as 'A Roman legate of our Holy Father in France,' there has been no satisfactory identification of this man. The drawing, an outstanding and rare survival of a fifteenth-century French work on paper, is by the painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet
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Portrait, Ecclesiastic, ca, 1461, Metalpoint, black chalk, white prepared paper, 7 13/16 x 5 5/16, 19.8 13.5 cm, Drawings, Jean Fouquet, French, Tours ca., 1425–ca., 1478, Tours, inscription describes, sitter, Roman legate, our Holy Father, France, no satisfactory, identification, man, drawing, outstanding, rare survival, fifteenth-century French, work, paper, painter, illuminator Jean, Fouquet
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