About Jean de Beaumetz
Lived 1335 – 1396 (aged 60–61). Jean de Beaumetz was a French painter.
Christ on the Cross with a Praying Carthusian Monk, ca. 1390–1395. Now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Jean de Beaumetz is recorded to have been "painter and valet" to Philip the Bold, for whom he painted numerous works, and decorated, among other chapels, that of the Castle of Argilli, in Burgundy. Some of his mural paintings are still preserved at château de Germolles. Jean de Beaumetz was employed by his patron from about 1375 to 1395.
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Who was Jean de Beaumetz?
French painter (1335-1396)
When was Jean de Beaumetz born?
Jean de Beaumetz was born in 1335 in Beaumetz-lès-Loges.
When did Jean de Beaumetz die?
Jean de Beaumetz died in 1396 in Burgundy.
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Jean de Beaumetz was a painter.
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Jean de Beaumetz was French.
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