Workshop of Corneille de Lyon

This entry is not a person. It stands for the Louvre's label 'workshop of Corneille de Lyon', which the museum now gives to a small portrait, Pierre Aymeric, painted in Lyon in 1534. The words mean a picture made in Corneille's shop, by the master with assistants or by an assistant working in his manner.

Scholars have long sorted the portraits that came out of that shop into separate hands without names. One of them, known as the Master of 1561, is anchored by a portrait of a man whose back carries the name 'Brontinus'. In 2023 the researcher Camille Larraz, writing in the Louvre's own journal, proposed that this was Jean Brotin, a Lyon painter paid for six days' work on the decorations for the entry into the city of Queen Eleanor, wife of King Francis I, in 1533, a project on which he may have worked beside Corneille.