Fontainebleau is a royal palace of Francis I. It was begun in 1528 and added to for the next 200 years. The Galerie François I (1533-40) introduces the so-called "Fontainebleau style" of interior decoration, a combination of sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork. It was evolved by Italian artists Niccolò dell'Abbate, Primaticcio and Rosso, who worked for Francis I from 1530 to 1560. The first School of Fontainebleau introduced Mannerism to France.

Henry IV devoted considerable energy to the decoration of the royal palaces, but unfortunately few of the paintings which he commissioned survive, and we are therefore badly informed about the so-called Second School of Fontainebleau, which was responsible for them. The name is generally applied to three painters: Ambroise Dubois, Toussaint Dubreuil and Martin Fréminet, who may be said to have revived the function of their predecessors at Fontainebleau after the Wars of Religion interrupted large-scale painting in France. However, the second School of Fontainebleau was less important.

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	Mythological Allegory c. 1580 Oil on canvas, 130 x 96 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Mythological Allegory (detail) c. 1580 Oil on canvas Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Charity c. 1560 Oil on canvas,147 x 97 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Allegory of the Birth of the Dauphin c. 1560 Oil on panel, 91 x 125 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Diana at the Bath c. 1590 Oil on wood, 105 x 76 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
	The Diana of Anet 1550-54 Marble, 211 x 258 x 135 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	The Diana of Anet 1550-54 Marble, 211 x 258 x 135 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	The Diana of Anet 1550-54 Marble, 211 x 258 x 135 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Diane de Poitiers c. 1590 Tempera on wood, 115 x 98,5 cm Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel
	Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées with her Sister 1590s Oil on wood, 129 x 97 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
	Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her Sisters c. 1595 Oil on canvas, 96 x 125 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Diana Huntress 1550-60 Oil on canvas, 192 x 133 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	The Lovers - Oil on canvas, 90 x 82 cm Private collection
	Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1556 Oil on panel, 70 x 89 cm Private collection
	Angels supporting coat of arms c. 1615 Stucco Chapel of the Trinité, Fontainebleau
	Angels supporting coat of arms c. 1615 Stucco Chapel of the Trinité, Fontainebleau
	Venus at Her Toilet c. 1550 Oil on canvas, 97 x 126 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris