Marguerite Bahuche

[2] Jacob Bunel lived in Tours at the time of his marriage, and the couple moved to Paris afterwards, where they were active in 1599.

As early as 1600, Jacob Bunel was employed by the king Henry IV for the decorations of the Tuileries Palace, and probably as early as 1603 for the decorations of the Little Gallery of the Louvre (now the "Galerie d'Apollon", completely rebuilt at the beginning of Louis XIV's reign), replacing Toussaint Dubreuil who had just died.

[3] They also obtained a lodging under the great gallery of the Louvre, as an artist protected by the king.

Marguerite Bahuche joined him to decorate the bays of the gallery with 28 portraits of kings and queens of France, from Saint Louis to Henry IV, and the decoration of the ceiling, with mythological scenes (completely destroyed during the fire of 1661, and known by rare preparatory drawings).

[4][5] Widowed in October 1614, she received from the regent Marie de' Medici the title of royal painter and that of inspector and curator of the galleries of paintings in the Louvre and the Tuileries.