# Jacob Bunel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacob_Bunel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacob_Bunel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bunel > Source revision: 1321488120 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|French painter}} thumb|215px|Portrait of Henry IV '''Jacob Bunel''' ({{circa}}1558, [Blois](/source/Blois) – 14 October 1614, [Paris](/source/Paris)) was a French painter, associated with the [Second School of Fontainebleau](/source/School_of_Fontainebleau).Paul Lafond ''Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements salle de l'hémicycle de l'École nationale des beaux-arts'', chapter XXXVI, "François et Jacob Bunel, peintres de Henri IV" (1898) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k206217n/f605.item Online] == Biography == He came from a family of artists. His grandfather, Jean (or Jehan), and his father, François, were painters, as was his brother; also named [François](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bunel_the_Younger).L. Bosseboeuf, "Documents sur les arts en Blésois", in: ''Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements salle de l'hémicycle, à l'École nationale des beaux-arts'', Typographie Plon, Nourrit et Cie (1909) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2062270/f60.item Online] He was born a Catholic, and originally named Jacques, but converted to Protestantism sometime in the early 1590s. After being trained by his father, he left for Spain. There, from 1585 to 1588, he assisted [Federico Zuccari](/source/Federico_Zuccari) and [Pellegrino Tibaldi](/source/Pellegrino_Tibaldi) at the construction site for the cloister at the [Escorial](/source/Escorial). When this was completed, he went to Rome to work in Zuccari's studio. At some point, he returned to Blois, where he painted portraits.Sylvie Béguin, "Pour Jacob Bunel", in: ''Claude Vignon et son temps'', Proceedings of the international conference of the [University of Tours](/source/University_of_Tours), Klincksieck, 1998, pg.84 He moved to [Tours](/source/Tours) in 1595, where he rented a house and studio and married [Marguerite Bahuche](/source/Marguerite_Bahuche), a Protestant. She was also a painter, as was her father, Antoine.[http://siefar.org/dictionnaire/fr/Marguerite_Bahuche Brief biography of Bahuche] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805144312/http://siefar.org/dictionnaire/fr/Marguerite_Bahuche |date=2016-08-05 }} @ Siefar In 1599, they moved to Paris, at the request of King [Henry IV](/source/Henry_IV_of_France), in memory of his father, who had served as the King's painter and [valet de chambre](/source/valet_de_chambre). He would be employed at the court until his death. From 1600, he was engaged in painting decorations for the [Palais des Tuileries](/source/Palais_des_Tuileries). After 1603, he did similar work at the [Louvre](/source/Louvre), in the "[Petite Galerie](/source/Petite_Galerie_of_the_Louvre)", replacing [Toussaint Dubreuil](/source/Toussaint_Dubreuil), who had recently died.[Henri Sauval](/source/Henri_Sauval), ''Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la ville de Paris'', Chez Charles Moette et Jacques Chardon (1724) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9633278p/f68.item Online] Together with his wife, he decorated the aisles of the gallery with 28 portraits of previous Kings and Queens of France, beginning with [Saint Louis](/source/Louis_IX_of_France), and filled the ceiling with mythological scenes. These were destroyed by a fire in 1661, but some preparatory drawings have survived. From 1608 to 1610, on a commission from Queen [Marie de' Medici](/source/Marie_de'_Medici), he created a painting for the high altar at the new [Church of the Feuillants](/source/Church_of_the_Feuillants) on the [Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré](/source/Rue_du_Faubourg-Saint-Honor%C3%A9), depicting the [Assumption of the Virgin](/source/Assumption_of_the_Virgin). The painting was moved to [Bordeaux](/source/Bordeaux) in 1803, and destroyed by a fire in 1870, during the [Franco-Prussian War](/source/Franco-Prussian_War). There is a story that says Bunel left the painting unfinished because, as a Protestant, he refused to paint the Virgin. It was supposedly finished many years later by [Charles de La Fosse](/source/Charles_de_La_Fosse).{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} What is likely his last project took place from 1612 to 1614, when he was part of a group providing decorations for the Grand Cabinet of Marie de' Medici, who was then the [Queen Mother](/source/Queen_Mother), at the Louvre. Other artists participating in the project included {{ill|Gabriel Honnet|fr}}, {{ill|Guillaume Dumée|fr}} and [Ambroise Dubois](/source/Ambroise_Dubois). His decorations depicted scenes from ''[Jerusalem Delivered](/source/Jerusalem_Delivered)'' by [Torquato Tasso](/source/Torquato_Tasso). [[File:Henri IV à la Bataille d'Arques.jpg|thumb|325px|Henry IV at the [Battle of Arques](/source/Battle_of_Arques)]] == References == {{reflist}} == Further reading == * [Auguste Jal](/source/Auguste_Jal), "Bunel (Jacob) ?1558-1614", in: ''Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire'', Henri Plon (1872) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5441746s/f310.image Online] * [Michael Bryan](/source/Michael_Bryan_(art_historian)), "Bunel, Jacques", in: ''Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical'', Robert Edmund Graves (1886 ed.) [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092716962/page/n209/mode/1up Online] * [Jules Guiffrey](/source/Jules_Guiffrey), "Jacob Bunel, peintre et valet de chambre du roi", in: ''Artistes parisiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles'', Imprimerie nationale (1915) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k205098w/f100.item Online] == External links == {{commonscat|Jacob Bunel}} * {{Base Joconde|000PE002279|Musée du Louvre: Attributed to Augustin Quesnel; a portrait believed to be Jacob Bunel (posthumous?)}} * [http://www.dhistoire-et-dart.com/approche/RevoirJacobBunel.html D'histoire et d'@rt : ''Revoir Jacob Bunel'', by Sylvain Kerspern] {{ACArt}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bunel, Jacob}} Category:16th-century French painters Category:French male painters Category:17th-century French painters Category:1558 births Category:1614 deaths Category:Artists from Blois Category:Painters from Centre-Val de Loire Category:French court painters Category:People from the Orléanais --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jacob Bunel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bunel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bunel?action=history)). 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