他出生在图尔。很少有人知道他的生活，但可以肯定的是他在意大利 1447年之前，当他执行的肖像教皇尤金四世，谁死那年（肖像只存活在很多更高版本的副本）。

当他回到法国，同时保留了纯粹的法式情怀，他嫁接的托斯卡纳风格，这是他在他在意大利期间已收购，经风格的元素范Eycks，形成早期的15世纪法国艺术的基础并成为一个重要的新学派的创始人。

曾供职于法国宫廷，包括查理七世，掌柜艾蒂安士，和总理纪尧姆Jouvenel德于尔桑。靠近他的职业生涯结束，他成为宫廷画家，以路易十一。

他的作品可以与法国法院的企图巩固在与英格兰的长期斗争之后法国国家认同有关百年战争。

一个例子是，当富凯描绘了查理七世为一体的东方三博士。这是国王的极少数人像之一。据一些消息来源，另外两个法师是王太子路易，未来的路易十一，和他的兄弟

He was born in Tours. Little is known of his life, but it is certain that he was in Italy before 1447, when he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV, who died that year (the portrait survives only in much-later copies).

Upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his period in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, forming the basis of early 15th-century French art and becoming the founder of an important new school.

He worked for the French court, including Charles VII, the treasurer Étienne Chevalier, and the chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins. Near the end of his career, he became court painter to Louis XI.

His work can be associated with the French court's attempt to solidify French national identity in the wake of its long struggle with England in the Hundred Years' War.

One example is when Fouquet depicts Charles VII as one of the three magi. This is one of the very few portraits of the king. According to some sources, the other two magi are the Dauphin Louis, future Louis XI, and his brother.