Martin Fréminet

His time was chiefly passed at Rome, Parma, and Venice, and he directed his most serious attention to the works of Parmigiano and Michelangelo, the study of the latter having a great influence on him.

After an absence of about sixteen years he returned to his native country by way of Lombardy and Savoy, and in the latter he painted some important works for the ducal palace.

His fame had preceded him, for on the death of Toussaint Du-Breuil in 1602 he was appointed by Henry IV his principal painter, obtaining at the same time by purchase a sinecure post about the court.

Fréminet died in Paris in 1619, and was buried, in accordance with his desire, near Fontainebleau, for which he had painted several pictures, which were destroyed when that Abbey was burnt in 1793.

Fréminet had a good knowledge of architectural perspective and of anatomy, though his aspirations after the grandeur of Michelangelo frequently led him into exaggerations, and have caused him to be much decried.