Artist

Jean de Beaumetz

Portrait of Jean de Beaumetz
Portrait of Jean de Beaumetz

French, 1335–1396

Jean de Beaumetz was a French Gothic painting painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them tempera paintings. Jean de Beaumetz was born in Beaumetz-lès-Loges.

Jean de Beaumetz is recorded to have been "painter and valet" to Philip the Bold, for whom he painted numerous works, and decorated, among other chapels, that of the Castle of Argilli, in Burgundy. Some of his mural paintings are still preserved at château de Germolles. Jean de Beaumetz was employed by his patron from about 1375 to 1395.

Works by Jean de Beaumetz

Collections represented

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