The Luminous Legacy of Jean Petitot the Elder In the delicate, shimmering world of seventeenth-century miniature portraiture, few names command as much reverence as Jean Petitot the Elder. A master of the rare and demanding medium of enamel painting, Petitot did not merely capture faces; he captured the very essence of royal prestige upon surfaces of metal and glass. Born in Geneva around 1607, his journey was one of profound technica…