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Charles Le Brun
(24th Feb, 1619 - 22nd Feb, 1690)
Etude d'ensemble pour le frontispice
1668
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
figure study
Allegory of Victory
Allegory of Fame
drapery
Louis XIV the Great (king of France) (1638-1715)
Campaign in Flanders (1745-1747)
frontispiece (illustration)
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About the artwork
Title:
Etude d'ensemble pour le frontispice
Periods:
17th century
modern age
XVIIth century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
black chalk
black ink
wash with grey
beige paper
Dimensions:
520 x 420
Inventory number:
INV29423-recto
Detail:
Le retour de la campagne de Frandre. Frontispice de la thèse de philosophie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, fils du ministre, soutenue le 29 août 1668 au collège de Clermont et dédiée à Louis XIV
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Charles Le Brun
Also known as:
Sharlʹ Le Bri︠u︡nʹ
Chevalier Charles Le Brun
Sharl Le Briun
Charles LeBrun
Charles le Brun
Charles Lebrun
Born:
24th Feb, 1619
Dead:
22nd Feb, 1690
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Charles Le Brun
(24 February 1619 – 22 February 1690) was a French painter, art theorist, interior decorator and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
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