For the Napoleon-era politician, see Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière
Born
Paris, Kingdom of France
Baptised
(1619-02-24)24 February 1619
Died
22 February 1690(1690-02-22) (aged 70)
Paris, Kingdom of France
Director of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture
In office 1683–1690
Monarch
Louis XIV of France
Preceded by
Charles Errard
Succeeded by
Pierre Mignard
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Charles Le Brun (French pronunciation:[ʃaʁlləbʁœ̃]; baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690)[1] was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time". Le Brun was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and was influenced by Nicolas Poussin.[2]
CharlesLeBrun (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lə bʁœ̃]; baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist...
a committee of three, the Petit Conseil, also including Louis Le Vau and CharlesLeBrun, who designed the new section of the Louvre, the Colonnade, built...
Burchard, The Sovereign Artist: CharlesLeBrun and the Image of Louis XIV, London 2016 Lacordaire, Notice historique sur les Manufactures impériales de tapisseries...
development and the construction of the Mirror Hall Gallery and artist CharlesLeBrun received the honor to create the interior decorative apparatus. The...
Louis Le Vau, CharlesLeBrun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by Louis Le Vau, CharlesLeBrun, and Claude...
Nôtre, the royal gardener since 1657, and CharlesLeBrun, a painter in royal service since 1647. Vaux-le-Vicomte's scale and opulence led him to imprison...
judoka CharlesLeBrun (1619–1690), French painter Charles-François Lebrun (1739–1824), 1st duc de Plaisance, French statesman Christopher LeBrun (born...
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Hephaestion has been a popular subject in Western art, represented by CharlesleBrun, Paolo Veronese, Justus Sustermans, and many others. Asteroid 823 Sisigambis...
portraits. He was a near-contemporary of the Premier Peintre du Roi CharlesLeBrun with whom he engaged in a bitter, life-long rivalry. Pierre Mignard...
Examples include paintings by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli and by CharlesLeBrun (1647), both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sebastiano...
displaying painting (including artworks by Philippe de Champaigne, CharlesLeBrun, François Boucher, John Constable, Ingres, Théodore Géricault and Camille...
Petit Conseil, consisting of Louis Le Vau, CharlesLeBrun, and Claude Perrault. Louis Le Vau's brother, François Le Vau, also contributed. Cast in a restrained...
were adopted at the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture by CharlesLeBrun as the foundation of French classicism. Raphael as an artist was known...
Night and Morpheus by Luca Giordano (1684–1686) Evening or Morpheus by CharlesLeBrun Morpheus appears to Alcyone. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses...
Nicolas Fouquet, Vaux-le-Vicomte with the help of André Le Nôtre and CharlesLeBrun. Le Vau's most notable work in the Vaux-le-Vicomte is the oval salon...
lavishly decorated with murals by CharlesLeBrun and it was placed in the center of enormous formal gardens designed by André Le Notre, laid out in geometric...
military, and cultural figures, such as Bossuet, Colbert, Louvois, LeBrun, Le Nôtre, Lully, Mazarin, Molière, Racine, Turenne, Condé, and Vauban. Louis...
were from the king's painter CharlesLeBrun, realized as full-scale cartoons by two painters from the Gobelins; LeBrun was carrying out ceiling paintings...
used for Versailles: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter CharlesLeBrun, and the garden designer André le Nôtre. At Vaux and other major properties...
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