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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:: 20480
Melpomene Erato and Polymnia (mk05)
Wood,51 1/4 x 51 1/4''(130 x 130 cm).Part of the descration for the Chamber of the Muses in the Hotel Lambert in Paris; collection of Louis XIV;acquired in 1776
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Painting ID:: 20952
Jesus Carrying the Cross (san 05)
Wood 24 x 49 1/2''(61 x 126 cm)Altar frontal for a chapel in the Church of St.Gervais,Paris Seized in the Revolution INV 8016 (G/AR)
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Painting ID:: 21601
Melpomene,Erato und Polymnia (mk08)
c.1652-1655
Oil on canvas,
130x130cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 29080
King Darius Visiting the Tomh of His Father Hystaspes
mk65
Oil on canvas
64x44"
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Painting ID:: 29127
The Prsent of the Virgin in the Temple
mk65
1640/45
Oil on canvas
39 1/2x39 1/2"
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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: | John Hoppner | Felice Giani | V.L.E. Sparre | Paggi, Giovanni Battista | FERRARI, Defendente |
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