{{short description|French painter}} [[File:La oración en el huerto con el donante Luis I de Orleans.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Christ in the Garden of Olives with Saint Agnes and Louis I d’Orleans as a Donor'']] '''Colart de Laon''' (active 1377–1411; died before 27 May 1417)<ref name="Maroto">{{cite web|last1=Maroto|first1=Silva|title=Colart de Laon|url=https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/artista/colart-de-laon/50b562a0-9ce9-4c3f-96f5-055b6ccc3574|publisher=Museo del Prado|accessdate=20 January 2017|date=2012}}</ref> was a French painter.
==Biography== First mentioned in 1377 as working for Philip the Bold, he later became ''valet de chambre'' to Louis I, Duke of Orléans from 1391 on and afterwards to his son Charles until at least 1411. While no surviving works have been with certainty attributed to him, some panel paintings are considered likely to be his work. Those mentioned in contemporary sources include a number of large works for Philip the Bold in 1395, which were placed in Chartres Cathedral, ''Virgin, St. John and the Trinity'' for Louis I for a church in Paris in 1396, and in 1397 a reliquary chest for Queen Isabeau of Bavaria and a panel painting of Louis the Pious and Louis of Toulouse. In 1406 he was working on a large panel for the French Parliament.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hourihane|first1=Colum|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, Volume 2|date=2012|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=9780195395365|page=164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&dq=colart+de+Laon&pg=RA3-PA19}}</ref>
As was typical for court painters in this period, his activities weren't restricted to panel paintings but he is also mentioned as creator of decorations for festivities, and cartons for tapestries.<ref name="Maroto"/>
In May 2012, the Prado Museum in Madrid acquired a panel, presumably the central part of a triptych, depicting ''Christ in the Garden of Olives with Saint Agnes and Louis I d’Orleans as a Donor''. It is the only known contemporary depiction of Louis I.<ref name="Rykner">{{cite web|last1=Rykner|first1=Didier|title=A 15th century French Panel Acquired by the Prado|url=http://www.thearttribune.com/A-15th-century-French-Panel.html|publisher=The Art Tribune|accessdate=20 January 2017|date=11 February 2012}}</ref>
An ''Angel of the Annunciation'' in the Museum of Laon, the right wing of a triptych, which is attributed to the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant, may be another work by Colart de Laon.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Villela-Petit|first1=Inès|title=L'ange au chanoine. Fragment d'un retable laonnois du XVe siècle|journal=Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot|date=2003|volume=82|issue=1|pages=173–212|doi=10.3406/piot.2003.1418}}</ref>
<gallery> Retable Annonciation Musée de Laon 70908 3.jpg|''Annunciation'' by the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant Retable de Pierre de Wissant 01485.jpg|Reverse of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant </gallery>
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