Un tableau de Jean Cousin à la TEFAF ?
A significant French Renaissance painting, "La Pentecôte" attributed to Jean Cousin the Elder, will be presented at the 2026 TEFAF Maastricht art fair by the gallery Caretto & Occhinegro. The 1558 oil on panel, once part of the Bob Jones University Museum collection, is expected to attract major attention from specialists and museums at the fair.
This discovery matters because Jean Cousin is a pivotal yet poorly understood figure of the French Renaissance. The painting's reattribution and public presentation offer a rare opportunity for study and potential acquisition by French institutions, which often lament seeing important national heritage appear on the international market rather than in domestic collections.