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L empereur Charles IV, illuminated manuscript
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Français : L'empereur Charles IV et les dignitaires de Paris Grandes Chroniques de France, enluminées par Jean Fouquet, Tours, vers 1455-1460 Paris, BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 6465, fol. 442v. (Livre de Charles V) Le 4 janvier 1378, l'empereur Charles IV et son fils Wenceslas rencontrent, entre Saint-Denis et La Chapelle-Saint-Denis, le prévôt de Paris, le prévôt des marchands, le chevalier du guet, les échevins et les bourgeois de la ville de Paris envoyés par le roi à leur rencontre.
Jean Fouquet (1420–1481) was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance. He was born in Tours. Little is known of his life, but he was certainly in Italy before 1447 when he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV, who died that year (the portrait survives only in much-later copies).
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