Jean Chalette

Jean Chalette (27 December 1581 (baptised) – 2 October 1643) was a French miniature and portrait painter.

Portrait de Chanoine by Jean Chalette, Musée des Augustins, 1623

Chalette was born in Troyes, where he at first practised his art. In 1581 he was summoned to Toulouse to decorate the Hôtel-de-Ville, and there gained so much renown that he settled in that city, where he died in 1643.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Chalette, Jean". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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