Antoine Caron (1521–1599)

• Was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Northern Mannerist painter.
• Caron was born in Beauvais between 1521 and 1530 to Phillipe and Adele Caron. 
• He married Marie Dangobert in 1555.

• Together, they had one son, Louis, who was born ca. 1570. 

• He began painting in his teens doing frescos for a number of churches.

• Between 1540 and 1550 he worked under Primaticcio and Niccolò dell'Abbate at the School of Fontainebleau. 

• In 1561, he was appointed the court painter by Catherine de' Medici and Henry II of France.

• His drawings of festivities at the court of Charles IX are likely sources for the depiction of the court in the Valois Tapestries.

• He died in Paris in 1599.

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