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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:: 79218
Marquise de Roug with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien
1787(1787)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 123.4 x 155.9 cm (48.6 x 61.4 in)
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Painting ID:: 85624
Suicide of Cato the Younger
1646(1646)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 108 x 147 cm (42.5 x 57.9 in)
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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: | Wilhelm Leibl | Mattheus Terwesten | FIGINO, Giovanni Ambrogio | Theodore R. Davis | Alfred Eduard Chalon |
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