Artist: LE BRUN, Charles Painting: The Resolution of Louis XIV to Make War on the Dutch Republic g Introduction: 1671
Oil on canvas, 72 x 98 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Auxerrre
Holy Family with the Adoration of the Child s Painting ID:: 7825
Artist: LE BRUN, Charles Painting: Martyrdom of St John the Evangelist at Porta Latina g Introduction: 1641-42
Oil on canvas, 282 x 224 cm
Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris
French painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
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 S?guier, 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
. Related Artists to LE BRUN, Charles : | Willam Bartram | Francisco Barrera | John Ford Paterson | Thomas Danby | Caspar Wolf |