Jean Clouet: Portrait of Guillaume Budé (1536)

 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA)

A painting by the French artist Jean Clouet (1485-1540). This piece depicts Guillaume Budé (1467 – 1540), librarian to King Francis I of France and the leading humanist of sixteenth-century France. Budé founded the royal library at Fontainebleau, which later moved to Paris where it became the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Budé is shown holding a page on which he has written in greek the text "While it seems to be good to get what one desires, the greatest good is not to desire what one does not need". Painting from 1536.