|
Charles le Brun
|
|
|
|
|
|
Portrat des Bildhauers Nicolas le Brun
Painting ID:: 91845
new25/Charles le Brun-764539.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charles le Brun
|
|
French Baroque Era Painter, 1619-1690
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 |
|
Portrat des Bildhauers Nicolas le Brun |
|
um 1635
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 87 X 69 cm (34.3 X 27.2 in)
cyf |
|
Related Paintings::.
| Beach at Scheveningen | The Stonebreaker | A Woman Asleep at Table (detail) atr | |
|
|
|
