Anne of France and Her Daughter Suzanne, Presented by Saint John the Evangelist

Anne of France and Her Daughter Suzanne, Presented by Saint John the Evangelist, in the Louvre, shows two of the most powerful women of the period—Anne, regent of France and daughter of Louis XI, with her daughter Suzanne who would eventually inherit the Bourbon territories—in a devotional donor portrait asserting both their piety and their dynastic identity. Jean Hey painted this wing of what may have been a larger devotional triptych or diptych, the figures' precise characterization reflecting his access to the Bourbon court.

Anne's face is a portrait of particular authority—the regent's features rendered with unflinching precision that records her specific physiognomy alongside the formal conventions of the donor portrait. The younger Suzanne is given a smaller, softer treatment appropriate to her age, the two figures creating a dynastic pairing whose spiritual significance is mediated by the standing Saint John.