Juste family

1559), son of Antonio and pupil of Jean, has been widely accepted as the author of some well-known etchings of naked or écorché (flayed) male figures signed with a complicated monogram.

Antoine worked for Georges d'Amboise in the castle of Gaillon; while Jean, attracted to Tours, spent a few years in the atelier of Michel Colombe, famous as the sculptor of the "Entombment" in the Abbey of Solesmes.

At his school Jean Juste became imbued with the realism of Flanders, slightly softened and tempered with French delicacy.

Francis I of France commissioned them to execute the mausoleum of Louis XII at St-Denis, and this occupied almost fifteen years (1516–31).

Its main theme consists of a gisant or recumbent effigy of the deceased, laid upon a funeral couch surmounting the sarcophagus, upon the sides of which a procession of mourners is represented.

The hero is represented kneeling on a catafalque beneath which the gisant appears as a naked, emaciated corpse, "such as death has made it for us".

The tomb of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany at the Basilique Saint-Denis , mostly by Jean Juste and his nephew Juste de Juste , who was responsible especially for the Virtues at the corners. Completed 1531.