# Guillaume Budé [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CLOUET, Jean]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 39,7 x 34,3 cm ## Commentary Guillaume Budé c. 1536 Oil on wood, 39,7 x 34,3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jean Clouet, who was probably from the Netherlands, worked at the French court from 1516 and rose to the position of chief painter to King Francis I. His portraits were highly praised by his contemporaries and were notable for both their delicacy and their force of characterization. Guillaume Budé \(1467-1540\), a famous humanist, was the founder of the Collège de France, the first keeper of the royal library \(now the Bibliothèque Nationale\), an ambassador, and chief city magistrate of Paris. This portrait is mentioned in Budé's manuscript notes and is Jean Clouet's only documented painting. ## Related artworks - [François I]() - [Jean de la Barre]() - [Madame de Lautrec]() - [Man with a Petrarch]() - [Portrait of a Man Holding a Volume of Petrarch]() - [Portrait of an Unknown Man]() - [Portrait of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise]() - [Portrait of François I as St John the Baptist]() - [Portrait of François I, King of France]() - [Portrait of Jean de Dinteville, Seigneur de Polisy]() - [Portrait of Madame de Canaples]() - [The Dauphin François, Son of François I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()