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Pierre Quesnel (c.1502 – c. 1580) was a 16th-century French artist who worked in Scotland. Pierre worked in Scotland for Mary of Guise and James V. He is listed as an Usher in Guise's household and is identified as the queen's painter in the Scottish ''Treasurer's Accounts''.〔Apted & Hannabuss, ''Dictionary of Scottish Painters'', SRS (1978), 77: Thomas, Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie'', John Donald (2005), 85: ''Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland'', vol. 8, 59, 77, 84, 92.〕 (Artists at the French court were also given positions as ushers or valets.)〔(Table of French court artists' salaries and appointments (in French) )〕 Pierre, 'Perys the uscher', was given £10 at the time of Mary of Guise's coronation.〔''Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland,'' vol. 7 (1907), 296, March 1540.〕 According to an inscription on the back of a portrait of his son Nicholas, he married Madeleine Digby in Scotland,〔(Reiset, Frederic, ''Notice des dessins, cartons, pastels ... du Louvre'' (1869) ) 411-413: Was "Digby", Edbe, the surname of James V's tapestry man?〕 and his eldest son the painter François Quesnel was born in Edinburgh.〔Benezit, Emmanuel, ''Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs Et Graveurs'', 14 vols. (1911-1920/1999), quotes Marolles on biography of Pierre.〕 Quesnel must have returned to France with his family around 1544. His sons Nicolas and Jacques were also artists, and a number of chalk portraits by François and Nicolas survive. Jacques's work is known only through a single drawing, ''Time slaying Youth''.〔Brugerolles & Guillet, ''The Renaissance in France'', ENSBA/Harvard (1995), 210.〕 Pierre's work is also mostly lost, excepting an ''Architectural Study'' after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, preserved at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and another drawing, a view called ''Château of Sées''.〔Brugerolles & Guillet (1995), 210-11 & note1, (?Château d'O, 9km from Sées).〕 The Abbé de Marolles, a seventeenth-century French writer, recorded Pierre in verse as the designer of a stained-glass window for the Eglise des Augustins in Paris in 1557, with subject, ''Ascension of Christ with Portraits of Henri II and Catherine de Medici'', now destroyed. Marolles also stated that Pierre and his son François designed tapestries.〔(Jannet, P., ed., ''Marolles' Livre des Peintres et Graveurs'', Paris (1855) ) 49-51.〕 Although these works are destroyed, there is a portrait of Pierre himself made by Nicolas or François in 1574.〔Preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Estampes, call no. Na 22: cf. drawing ENSBA website.〕 The historian Andrea Thomas argued from Pierre's small salary as an usher in Scotland that he was a decorative painter rather a portrait artist.〔Thomas, Andrea, ''Princelie Majestie, the court of James V'', John Donald (2005), 85.〕 Pierre and François are recorded painting panelling and chimneypieces in Paris in 1570.〔Grodecki,Cathérine, ''Histoire de l'art au XVIe siècle, 1540-1600'', vol. 2, Archives Nationales, (1986), 24, 203-204 no. 830〕 However, in November 1541, Mary of Guise's mother, Antoinette de Bourbon, wrote to thank her daughter for the portrait miniature James V had sent, which she called a 'diamond', and was presumably painted from life; "pour bien faire mes tres humbles mersimens au Roy du dyament quy luy a pleu m'envoyer. Je vous repons se m'a este present bien agreable et que j'ayme aultant qu'yl est possible; il sera garde toute ma vye pour l'onneur de luy. Je l'ay trouve sy beau sa painture que sy savyes combien je l'ayme j'e peur vous en series jallouse. ==External links== * * * (Biography of François Quesnel (in French) ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre Quesnel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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