Long, curly and curly hair, wearing a velvet cap, with a gigantic starched strawberry underneath, encircling the neck ... Who owns this eccentric and proud face, currently on display at the Philip Mold gallery in London?
To a cute one certainly.
It was by unframing this portrait, a Renaissance miniature painting jewel, that a curator, after acquiring it in the auction house last summer, was able to read on the reverse of the vellum a year and a signature.
Those of 1578 and Decourt.
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The connection was quickly made with Jean Decourt, successor to François Clouet in charge of portrait painter of the court of France.
A prestigious artist therefore but of whom there seemed to be no signed portrait until then.
Decourt was however also the official artist of Marie Ire of Scotland.
For example, he is mentioned in the archives as having painted Elizabeth I and her favorite, the first Earl of Leicester, on a trip to England.
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