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Eustache Le Sueur
French Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1655.
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important painters of historical, mythological and religious pictures in 17th-century France and one of the founders of French classicism. He was long considered the 'French Raphael' and the equal of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Le Brun. His reputation reached its zenith in the first half of the 19th century, but since then it has been in decline, largely as a result of the simplified and saccharine image of the man and his art created by Romantic writers and painters. Nevertheless, more recent recognition of the complexity of his art has resulted in a new interest in him and in his place in the evolution of French painting in the 17th century. Despite the almost total absence of signed and dated works, the chronology of Le Sueur's oeuvre can be established with the aid of a few surviving contracts, dated engravings after his paintings and the list of works published by Le Comte in 1700.
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Painting ID:: 10153
Caligula Depositing the Ashes of his Mother and Brother in the Tomb of his Ancestors
1647
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 10154
A Gathering of Friends
1640
Oil on canvas
127 x 195 cm
Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 10155
Clio Euterpe and Thalia
1652 Oil on wood
130 x130cm Louvre
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Painting ID:: 10156
Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia
1652Oil on canvas
130x130 cmLouvre
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Painting ID:: 10157
The Muse Terpsichore
1652-55 Oil on panel,
116 x 74 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Eustache Le Sueur
French Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1655.
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important painters of historical, mythological and religious pictures in 17th-century France and one of the founders of French classicism. He was long considered the 'French Raphael' and the equal of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Le Brun. His reputation reached its zenith in the first half of the 19th century, but since then it has been in decline, largely as a result of the simplified and saccharine image of the man and his art created by Romantic writers and painters. Nevertheless, more recent recognition of the complexity of his art has resulted in a new interest in him and in his place in the evolution of French painting in the 17th century. Despite the almost total absence of signed and dated works, the chronology of Le Sueur's oeuvre can be established with the aid of a few surviving contracts, dated engravings after his paintings and the list of works published by Le Comte in 1700.
. Related Artists to Eustache Le Sueur: | Metcalf, Willard Leroy | George Cooke | Henri Gascar | Eugene Buland | Maclise, Daniel |
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