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LE BRUN, Charles
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
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Painting ID:: 7827
Pieta
1643-45
Oil on canvas, 146 x 222 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 7828
Chancellor Sguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660 sg
c. 1656
Oil on canvas, 295 x 351 cm
Muse du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 7829
Adoration of the Shepherds sg
1689
Oil on canvas, 151 x 213 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 7830
The Triumph of Faith fs
1658-60
Oil on canvas
Château, Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Painting ID:: 20627
The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05)
Canvas ,36 x 46''(91 x 117 cm)Collection of Louis XIV
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LE BRUN, Charles
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: | Pierre-Jacques Volaire | Circle of Mateo Cerezo the Younger | VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y | Teodor Axentowicz | August Strindberg |
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