# Robinet Testard

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robinet_Testard
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robinet_Testard.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinet_Testard
> Source revision: 1340903499
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Robinet Testard** ([fl.](/source/Fl.) 1470–1531) was a French [illuminator](/source/Illuminated_manuscript) and painter, whose works are difficult to attribute since none of them were signed or dated. He is known to have worked for the family of [Charles, Count of Angoulême](/source/Charles,_Count_of_Angoul%C3%AAme) (1459–96) in [Cognac](/source/Cognac,_France), and made [Valet de Chambre](/source/Valet_de_Chambre) to the family in 1484. When the Count of Angoulême died in 1496, Testard accepted service with the Count's widow, [Louise of Savoy](/source/Louise_of_Savoy), and is mentioned at the time of her death in 1531.

Testard started his career in [Poitiers](/source/Poitiers). His works include a page in a *Missal for Poitiers Use*, the *La Rochefoucauld Hours*, and two other *[Books of Hours](/source/Book_of_hours)*. His middle period, characterised by tight compositions and sharply defined colouring, is typified by his *[Roman de la Rose](/source/Roman_de_la_Rose)*, the *Nouailher Missal* and the *[Book of Hours](/source/Book_of_Hours)*, probably painted for Charles, Count of Angoulême about 1480. Surprisingly, 17 engravings by [Israhel van Meckenem](/source/Israhel_van_Meckenem) were included in the tome and coloured by Testard. He produced another *Book of Hours*, a copy of [Dioskurides](/source/Dioskurides) and mythological illustrations after [Solinus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Solinus) and [Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder) titled *Les Secrets de l'histoire naturelle contenant les merveilles et choses memorables du monde*. He also illustrated [Matthaeus Platearius](/source/Matthaeus_Platearius)' "*The Book of [Simple](/source/Herbal#Fifteenth_century_manuscripts) Medicines*" [1]

## External links

- [*Les Secrets de l'histoire naturelle*](https://classes.bnf.fr/ebstorf/feuille/secrets/index.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230202015828/http://classes.bnf.fr/ebstorf/feuille/secrets/index.htm) 2023-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- [Horae ad usum Parisiensem 1475-1500](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432895r) (The Hours of Charles d’Angoulême)
- [MS. Douce 195](http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/3rjtub) (Le roman de la rose)
- [*Héroïdes ou Epîtres*](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427253m)
- [*Le livre des échecs amoureux moralisés*](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426258c)

## References

1. [The British Library Catalogue](http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourFrOut.asp)

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Robinet Testard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinet_Testard) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinet_Testard?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.