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Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)

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    Attributed to Charles Le Brun , Paris 1619 - 1690 a standing soldier seen from behind, and a separate study of his left leg Black chalk with traces of white chalk

    Attributed to Charles Le Brun , Paris 1619 - 1690 a standing soldier seen from behind, and a separate study of his left leg Black chalk with traces of white chalk

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    Circle of Charles Le Brun (Paris 1619-1690)

    Circle of Charles Le Brun (Paris 1619-1690)

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    PLAQUE EN BRONZE DORE REPRESENTANT L'ENTREE D'ALEXANDRE LE GRAND DANS BABYLONE

    PLAQUE EN BRONZE DORE REPRESENTANT L'ENTREE D'ALEXANDRE LE GRAND DANS BABYLONE

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    [CABINET DU ROI] -- [LE BRUN, Charles (1619-1690). La Grande galerie de Versailles et les deux salons qui l'accompagnent, peints par Charles Le Brun, premier ministre de Louis XIV, dessinés par Jean-Baptiste Massé, peintre, et gravés sous ses

    [CABINET DU ROI] -- [LE BRUN, Charles (1619-1690). La Grande galerie de Versailles et les deux salons qui l'accompagnent, peints par Charles Le Brun, premier ministre de Louis XIV, dessinés par Jean-Baptiste Massé, peintre, et gravés sous ses

Charles Le Brun Biography

(b Paris, bapt 24 Feb 1619; d Paris, 12 Feb 1690). French painter and designer. He dominated 17th-century French painting as no other artist; it was not until over a century later, during the predominance of Jacques-Louis David, that artistic authority was again so concentrated in one man. Under the protection of a succession of important political figures, including Chancellor Pierre Séguier, Cardinal Richelieu and Nicolas Fouquet, Le Brun created a series of masterpieces of history and religious painting. For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape. After Colbert’s death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions and, apart from finishing the decoration of Versailles, he concentrated on smaller-scale religious painting.

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