Pierre Vallet
Pierre Vallet (c. 1575, Orléans - 1657) was a French botanical artist, engraver and embroidery designer. He worked as a "Brodeur ordinaire du Roy" in the court of Marie de Medicis of Florence, second wife of Henry IV of France. Vallet made botanical illustrations, along with Jean Robin (botanist), Jean Robin, for the ''Le Jardin du tres Chrestien Henry IV'' (1608) with plants from the garden of the Louvre Palace along with exotic curiosities from West Africa and Spain. Life and work Vallet was born in Orleans and moved to Paris where he worked as an embroiderer under the patronage of Marie de' Medici, Marie de Médici of Florence (1575-1642), the second wife of Henry IV of France, Henry IV (1553-1610). Records suggest that there was a father and son who went by the name of Pierre Vallet and that the son became more well known. He used floral motifs in his work and produced the ''Le Jardin du très Chrestien Henry IV'' ('The Garden of the most Christian Henry IV') in 1608 which ...
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