[85] See [Plate LII].
[86] MS. Fr. 20,490, fo. 6. These autographs display elegance in handwriting; and one of them refers to a mission with which Perréal was entrusted by Anne de Beaujeu, wife of Pierre de Bourbon, to fetch back the diamonds which she had deposited with Madame du Plessis Bourré during the Civil War. The Court of Moulins at that time was known as a centre of art and literature under the auspices of the cultured daughter of Louis XI.
[87] Among the drawings attributed to Fouquet the Papal Legate, formerly in the Heseltine Collection, is the best known.
[88] Called “of Navarre” because he worked for Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I. The portrait of Louis de Saint-Gelais in the Louvre (1513-39), of which a drawing is in the British Museum, is attributed to him.
[89] See [Plate LIII].
[90] Plusiers portraits et effigies au vif qu’il a faictes, Laborde, La Renaissance, p. 15.
[91] Laborde, Comptes des Bâtiments, III, p. 237.
[92] See [Plate LV].
[93] See [Plate LVI].
[94] See [Plate LXII].