Jean Colombe is generally thought to be a disciple of Fouquet, court painter of Charles VII and possibly the most famous French painter of the fifteenth century. A close observation of style in the early works of Colombe - among them one hitherto unidentified as such - proves instead that his training was far more complex. His major work - the Hours of Louis de Laval (Paris, BnF, Ms. lat. 920) owes a lot to the so-called Robertet book of hours, begun by Fouquet (New York, PML, Ms. 834), but instead of simply copying the revolutionary page-layout and compositions, Colombe transforms the Fouqetian ideas before an astonishing background of artistic tradition formed outside of Paris in the course of the 15th century. (http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/8/1/5/6/p481569_index.html?phpsessid=muuvrf336s45mjjrq8a3re4106)