Arnoult de Nimègue was a stained-glass painter active in France during the first half of the sixteenth century. His name indicates an origin in Nimègue (Nijmegen) in the Low Countries, and his work reflects the movement of Northern Renaissance visual culture into French glazing workshops. Two windows attributed to him at Saint-Godard, Rouen, dated 1506 and 1540 by the Corpus Vitrearum ⓘ, establish a securely evidenced span for his activity.

Arnoult’s stained glass demonstrates a synthesis of Northern graphic traditions and emerging Renaissance forms. His figures are strongly contoured and expressive, often derived from contemporary engravings, while architectural settings and spatial organisation show an increasing engagement with classical vocabulary. This combination distinguishes his work from late Gothic glazing practice and situates it within the broader transformation of French stained glass in the early sixteenth century.

The presence of Arnoult’s work in Rouen, a major artistic centre, suggests engagement with ambitious ecclesiastical commissions and places him within the network of itinerant or semi-itinerant glass painters active at this period. His career exemplifies the role of artists of Netherlandish origin in shaping the early Renaissance phase of French stained glass through the transmission and adaptation of new visual models.