2-720-439 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Francis I, King of France, c1540s?, (1907). Portrait of Francis (1494-1547) who ruled France from 1515. He is regarded as France's first Renaissance monarch and his kingdom underwent great cultural advances during his reign. After a portrait made in 1565 by Pierre Dumonstier (after an earlier work), in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, after an early 16th century drawing by Jean Clouet. From "Exposition de Portraits, peints et dessinés", (Exhibition of painted and drawn portraits), catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale, April-June 1907. [Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907]