Romain Buron was a master glazier active in northern France during the mid-16th century. A native of Gisors, he is documented between 1534 and 1575 and is described in contemporary sources as a disciple of Engrand Le Prince.

Buron’s career belongs to the later phase of Renaissance stained glass, when workshops increasingly relied on enamel painting and denser colour effects to achieve pictorial richness.

Work at Beauvais

On 13 May 1572, Romain Buron entered into a contract with the Beauvais merchant Nicolas Brocard for the completion of two historiated windows at Saint-Étienne ⓘ de Beauvais, including additional scenes from the Life of St Eustace ⓘ. These scenes—depicting plague, the death of animals, pillaging, and flight—were delivered in stages and integrated into the existing window between 1572 and c. 1575.

Buron is thus responsible for the final completion of the St Eustace window, incorporating new narrative episodes into the median and upper registers.

Style and assessment

Buron’s stained glass is characterised by:

• heavier use of enamels

• denser colour modelling

• a more opaque pictorial effect than earlier mid-century glass

While his work is technically assured and narratively clear, art historians have generally regarded it as competent rather than exceptional, and less brilliant than earlier Renaissance stained glass in Beauvais, particularly that associated with the Le Prince workshop.