Attributed to Toussaint Dubreuil

The Louvre lists Angelica and Medoro as attributed to Toussaint Dubreuil, which means the museum sees his hand in it but stops short of certainty. This entry stands for that qualifier. The canvas hangs in the Richelieu wing with the painters of the second School of Fontainebleau, the artists who decorated royal palaces for King Henri IV at the end of the 16th century.

Dubreuil, a Parisian who died in 1602, was one of the leading figures of that group. With the painter Jacob Bunel he decorated the Petite Galerie of the Louvre itself, work lost when fire swept the gallery in 1661. For the château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye he worked on a cycle of 78 paintings drawn from the Franciade, an epic by the poet Ronsard, and one of the few survivors, Hyante and Climène at Their Toilette, is also in the Louvre.