Portrait of Guillaume Budé

The "Portrait of Guillaume Budé" is a painting by the Renaissance artist Jean Clouet. Clouet, who worked in France, was renowned for his detailed and psychologically insightful portraits. While many of his works were initially attributed based on stylistic similarities to his drawings, the "Portrait of Guillaume Budé" is a well-documented piece that helped solidify the attribution of other works to Clouet. The painting depicts Guillaume Budé, a prominent French scholar and diplomat who played a key role in reviving classical studies in France and was instrumental in the founding of the Collège de France.12