Jacob Bunel

Jacob Bunel (c.1558, Blois - 14 October 1614, Paris) was a French painter, associated with the Second School of Fontainebleau.

After 1603, he did similar work at the Louvre, in the "Petite Galerie", replacing Toussaint Dubreuil, who had recently died.

[5] 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, and filled the ceiling with mythological scenes.

From 1608 to 1610, on a commission from Queen Marie de' Medici, he created a painting for the high altar at the new Church of the Feuillants on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, depicting the Assumption of the Virgin.

[citation needed] 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, at the Louvre.