Jean Perréal was probably the best-paid and one of the most highly regarded artists of his time.rnEven Leonardo da Vinci noted that he asked Perréal about his art of coloured chalk drawing[1]. Jean Perréal and Leonardo da Vinci later became acquainted. Perréal also cultivated an acquaintance with Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and the later famous physician Symphorien Champier[2].rnrnPerréal was mentioned almost every year between 1485 and 1529. He either stayed in his home town of Lyon or accompanied the French royal family on their travels as court painter under the three kings Charles VIII, Louis XII and Francis I. The fame he enjoyed at the time was largely based on his artistic organisation of the entry ceremonies of high-ranking personalities through Lyon. Such festivities were particularly magnificent and their constructions (papier-mâché triumphal arches, street decorations, festive stagings, etc.) achieved far longer-lasting fame. Perréal is said to have been famous for illustrating complicated abstract political and other ideological content with allegories, as can be seen from some of the manuscript miniatures attributed to him.rnrnJean Perréal oversaw the organisation of the processions of Charles II of Bourbon and the Cardinal of Lyon in 1485, King Charles VIII of France in 1490 and Queen Anne de Bretagne in 1494, as well as King Louis XII in 1499 and Cardinal Francis de Rohan in 1506. He also organised the extraordinarily splendid celebration in 1515 of King Francis I and Duke Francesco Maria I della Rovere in 1518, as well as the funerals of Anne de Bretagne in 1514 and King Louis XII in 1515.rnrnIn 1514, he was commissioned to travel to London in order to prepare the furnishings for the future Queen Mary of England, the wife of Louis XII. In 1494, Perréal was also a technical surveyor for the city of Lyon, and from 1509 he held the title of "controleur". In that year, he also inspected the scaffolding of the collapsed pillars of the bridge over the Rhone in Lyon.