CLOUET, François
(b. ca. 1510, Tours, d. 1572, Paris)

Pierre Quthe

1562
Oil on wood, 91 x 70 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The French portrait painting was open to a diversity of influences in the second half of the sixteenth century. Clouet's portrait of Pierre Quthe, an apothecary, is influenced by both Bronzino and Holbein.