# Portrait of Claude Gouffier [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CLOUET, François]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel ## Commentary Portrait of Claude Gouffier c. 1568 Oil on panel Musée National du Château, Versailles Claude Gouffier \(1501-1570\) distinguished himself as a captain of Pavia, where he was captured along with the king. In 1536 he was again taken prisoner, this time in Provence by the troops of Emperor Charles V. François I named him grand equerry of France. Responsible for organizing the royal jousts so dear to Henri II, he was a skilled, subtle, and prudent courtier. His family at the Château d'Orion had an art collection which included paintings, drawings, books of hours. This portrait shows Gouffier at the very end of his career as grand equerry. ## Related artworks - [A Lady in Her Bath \(detail\)]() - [A Lady in Her Bath]() - [A Lady in Her Bath]() - [Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France]() - [Henri II of Valois and Caterina de' Medici, Surrounded by Members of Their Family]() - [King Charles IX of France]() - [King Henry II of France]() - [Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Chatillon]() - [Pierre Quthe]() - [Portrait of Charles IX]() - [Portrait of Francis I, King of France]() - [Portrait of Francis I, King of France]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()