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Charles Lebrun French Pand art Theorist ,
Paris1619-190
Virtual dictator of the arts in France until the death of Colbert in 1683. He established his reputation by a series of decorative schemes, and his own greatest compositions, which immortalize the achievements of the crown, are at Versailles. He became a founder, rector, chancellor, and finally director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also director of the Gobelins factory and Premier Peintre (1664). His Tent of Darius (1661), for Louis XIV, is a model of legibility, with the explicit and varied gesture and expression of the figures deriving from ideas expressed by Poussin. Lebrun's influential treatise,
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Painting ID:: 29072 Daedalus and Icarus
mk65
Oil on canvas
75x49"
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Painting ID:: 30584 Portrait of Chancellor Seguier
mk68
Oil on canvas
9'8"x11'6"
Paris
1655-1657
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Painting ID:: 42039 The adoracion of the shepherds
mk166
1690
I Wave on cloth 91x46cm Museum of the Louvre Paris
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Painting ID:: 56093 equestrian portrait of louis xlv
mk247
c.1668,oil on canvas,129.5x73.5 in,329x187 cm,musee de la chartreuse,douai,france
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Painting ID:: 56906 Weinie Mrs. Lebrun self-portrait
mk250 the year 1790. Oil painting on fabric 254 x 205.7 cm. Florence.
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Charles Lebrun
French Pand art Theorist ,
Paris1619-190
Virtual dictator of the arts in France until the death of Colbert in 1683. He established his reputation by a series of decorative schemes, and his own greatest compositions, which immortalize the achievements of the crown, are at Versailles. He became a founder, rector, chancellor, and finally director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also director of the Gobelins factory and Premier Peintre (1664). His Tent of Darius (1661), for Louis XIV, is a model of legibility, with the explicit and varied gesture and expression of the figures deriving from ideas expressed by Poussin. Lebrun's influential treatise,
. Related Artists to Charles Lebrun: | Alfred Chataud | Bartolomeo Suardi | Augustyn Mirys | John Ferguson Weir | Hugo van der Goes |
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