Jean Poyer

1444 1502

French painter (c.1445-c.1503)

Jean Poyer, was a French painter and manuscript illuminator of the late 15th century. As a multitalented artist – illuminator, painter, draftsman, and festival designer active from 1483 until his death – he was a painter of Renaissance France, working for the courts of three successive French kings: Louis XI, Charles VIII, and Louis XII.

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