This masterful drawing is Jean Fouquet’s only known metalpoint. The prelate’s massive head and neck and his intense, focused gaze create a powerful impression of solidity and energy. The inscription, perhaps by Fouquet, identifies the sitter only as a “Roman legate of our Holy Father in France.”
Jean Fouquet, "Portrait of a Papal Legate," c. 1461, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Rogers Fund and gift of Mrs. Benjamin Knower, bequest of Ogden Mills, and bequest of Collis P. Huntington, by exchange, 1949
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