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Varie had risen from the merchant class as an official of the French royal treasury, and the arms and mottoes in the border mark his new noble rank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: a leaf from the Hours of Simon de Varie, tempera colours, gold paint, gold leaf and ink, painted by Jean Fouquet in Paris or Tours in 1455; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Fouquet, born in Tours about 1415–20, was a French painter and illuminator who, after a stay in Rome around 1445 where he painted Pope Eugenius IV, brought the ideas and techniques of Italian Renaissance art into French painting. He worked for King Charles VII and was later named court painter to Louis XI, running a large workshop that produced panel paintings, portraits and manuscripts. A leaf from a book of hours made for Simon de Varie, painted in 1455, is in the J. Paul Getty Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is a giclée, printed to order. 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