, to superintend the trousseau of
Mary Tudor, "pour aider ? dresser le dict appareil ? la mode de France,"
previous to her wedding journey to Paris.[57] Four months afterwards he
was summoned to direct the funeral obsequies of Louis himself. No
illuminated work can be really identified as the work of Perr?al, but
Mrs. Patteson (Lady Dilke) strongly urges the probability that he
painted the _Bible Histori?e_ of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
bequeathed by General Oglethorpe.[58] She considers it quite the sort of
work that would grow out of that of Fouquet, and dwells upon the fact of
his official duties as _valet de chambre_ giving him just that minute
facility in the decoration of armour and furniture in the miniatures
which the MS. displays. Whether this be so or not, it is certain that
the _Bible Histori?e_ is a fine example of the school of Tours.
[57] See Vespas, b. 2 (Brit. Mus.).
[58] See her _Renaissance of Art in France_, i. 303.
Another court painter and _valet de chambre_ to Louis XI. and his
successors was Jean Bourdichon, an artist born at Tours in 1457, and
therefore as a youth probably one of the scholars in the atelier of Jean
Fouquet. He is first noticed in the accounts in or about 1478: "A Jehan
Bourdichon, paintre, la somme de vingt livres dix sept solz ung denier
tournois pour avoir paint le tabernacle fait pour la chapelle du Plessis
du Pare, de fin or et d'azur.
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