"L'Histoire françoise de nostre temps", dont l'apothicaire Nicolas Houel écrivit les sonnets et dont il confia l'illustration, "sous forme de cartons de peinture de blanc et noir façonnez par les excellentz peinctres de France et d'Italie", fut élaborée durant le règne de Charles IX, entre 1560 et 1574. Elle comporte, dans l'état actuel de notre connaissance, 27 dessins de la main d'Antoine Caron

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Antoine Caron

Also known as:

Antoine Charon

Born:

1521

Dead:

1599

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Antoine Caron (1521–1599) was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Northern Mannerist painter and a product of the School of Fontainebleau. He is one of the few French painters of his time who had a pronounced artistic personality. His work reflects the refined, although highly unstable, atmosphere at the court of the House of Valois during the French Wars of Religion of 1560 to 1598. Read more...