What movement was Jean Saillant part of?

Jean Saillant was part of the French Classical Baroque movement.

Where can I see paintings by Jean Saillant?

Paintings by Jean Saillant are held by Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jean Saillant · Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

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Jean Saillant is a French French Classical Baroque artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Born in Avignon, Jean Saillant entered the Augustinian order and took the name Saliano, spending significant time in Rome and Florence from about 1620 to 1633; he is documented in Rome by 1622. Working primarily as a portrait miniaturist and draughtsman, he specialized in intimate likenesses executed on vellum, often stretched over wood or copper supports. His surviving works include the octagonal "Portrait of a Man" of about 1628, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a companion miniature identified as a church dignitary from the same year.

Another documented work is a portrait of Gaspard de Daillon du Lude, dated 1628. The precise circumstances of his training remain obscure, yet his miniatures display the technical precision characteristic of the period's finest French and Italian small-scale portraiture. After 1633, documentary references to Saillant diminish, and he is known to have died sometime in or after 1638.