Let’s celebrate the reunion between brothers and sisters, little princes and young princesses of the French Renaissance!
The discovery of two exceptional painted portraits representing two of François I’s children, never shown to the public until now, belonging to the same series as one of Chantilly’s paintings and based on drawings by Jean Clouet preserved in the Condé Museum, forms the beginning of an exciting story about the making of the portrait of a royal child in the courts of Francis I, Henry II and Catherine of Medici.
Portraits drawn or painted by Jean and François Clouet, but also of Germain Le Mannier or Jean Decourt come to tell the development of this genre with very particular codes but also the story of young princes and princesses who quickly left the childish innocence to become the famous Henri II, Marie Stuart, François II, Henry III or Queen Margot.