found: König, E. Das Vatikanische Stundenbuch Jean Bourdichons, 1984.
found: NUC pre '56(Bourdichon, Jehan, 1457?-1521?)
found: Limousin, R. Jean Bourdichon, 1954.
found: Bénézit., E. Dict., 1976:t. 2, p. 234 (Bourdichon, Jean, b. ca. 1457 (Tours?), d. 1521)
found: Grande enc., 1886-1902:t. 7, p. 738 (Bourdichon, Jehan)
found: Great hours of Anne of Brittany, 2010:p. 9 (Jean Bourdichon; painted the Great hours of Anne of Brittany) p. 53 (on March 14, 1508, Anne of Brittany paid Jehan Bourdichon, painter and manservant to the king [Louis XII], for a great book of hours) p. 138 (the French monarchs' favourite painter for four reigns)
found: Grove art online, 18 July 2016:Bourdichon, Jean (Bourdichon, Jean (1457-1521); French painter and illuminator active in Tours; from the 1480s until his death, he was peintre du roi and valet de chambre to a succession of French kings including Louis XI, Charles VIII, Louis XII, and François I; at court his responsibilities extended beyond illuminating and painting to the decorations at festivities, designs for coins, stained-glass windows, and plate; many of his manuscripts survive, including his earliest known work, a book of hours (c. 1480-5; Los Angeles, Getty Mus., MS 6) and the extensively illuminated Grandes Heures of Anne Brittany (1503-8; Paris, Bib. Nat., MS lat. 9474); a triptych of the Virgin with S. John the Baptist and S. John the Evangelist (c. 1500; Naples, Capodimonte) is his only known surviving panel painting; the vast quantity and the quality of his suviving work suggests a large workshop with many assistants) Valois, House of: 12, Anne of Brittany, Queen of France (Anne of Brittany became a particular patron of the illuminator Jean Bourdichon, an artist in Charles VIII's service; his commissions from her included manuscript illumination, designs for Breton coinage, and a portrait of her "from life")
