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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:: 66692
Cupid Ordering Mercury to Announce his Power to the Universe
Oil on panel
1646 - 1647
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Painting ID:: 70468
Eustache Le Sueur
Oil on panel, 49 x 65 cm
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Painting ID:: 70711
Melpomene Erato et Polymnie
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 1,30 m ?? 1,38 m
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Painting ID:: 71048
vie de saint bruno
le songe de saint brno paris musee du louvre
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Painting ID:: 89797
Euterpe and Thalia
between 1652(1652) and 1655(1655)
Medium oil on panel
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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: | Spinello Aretino | Giovan Battista Salvi Sassoferrato | Alfred Thompson Bricher | billy higgins | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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