Artist: Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690)
Nationality: French
Movement: Baroque
Media: Painting,Designer
Influences:

Biography:
Charles Le Brun trained as a painter under some of the leading artists of the seventeenth century, including Nicolas Poussin and Simon Vouet. He was commissioned in the 1650’s by minister of finance, Nicolas Fouquet to decorate the chapel at his chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte. After completing the project, Le Brun’s name was known and not long after in 1660, he was summoned to Fontainebleu by King Louis XIV. He was later given the title of First Painter to the King. Le Brun was appointed as director of the Gobelins tapestry manufactory where he used his influence to expand the clientele of the business into all the royal houses in Europe. He also worked as a painter and designer at Fontainebleu, the Louvre, and Versailles.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Martyrdom of St. Andrew
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Ten Panels
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Jacques Lubin Portrait of Charles Le Brun, premier Peintre du Roy Engraving 1696
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1747-1815), 1787 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on
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Charles Le Brun Head of a Winged Cherub (facing right) Red, black & white chalks on light brown (darkened with age) laid paper circa 1690 - 1700
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Charles Le Brun Head of a Winged Cherub (facing left) Red, black & white chalks on light brown (darkened with age) laid paper circa 1690 - 1700
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GÈrard or Girard Audran Massacre of the Children, (Jeremia Chp. 31, vers. 15) After Charles Le Brun 17th - 18th century
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Pierre Picault Triumphs of Alexander 17th - 18th century
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Atelier of a Painter, Probably Madame Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), and Her Pupil Marie Victoire
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun Title: Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Bacchante oil on canvas 1785
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Charles Le brun - The Holy Family n.d. oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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EugÈnie Le Brun L'EveillÈe Lithograph 19th century
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Franz Brun Terpsichore engraving 16th century
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Louis-Auguste Brun Studies of a Dog graphite and black ink 18th - 19th century
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Franz Brun Village dancers engraving 16th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Tapestry: Chariot of Triumph
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Louis-Auguste Brun Studies of a Dog and a Hare black chalk and black ink 18th - 19th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, (formerlyCount.of Mornington) oil on canvas 1791
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Georgius Hoefnagle ThȂtre des cites du monde ([Cologne: Godefroy van Kempen [for] the authors, 1579]), vol. 1 book with engravings 1579
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Gustav Adolf Muller Louise Elisabeth VigeÈ Le Brun de l'AcadÈmie Royale de Peinture 18th century
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Paul Gavarni Le Carnaval a Paris: Viola la petite avec le brun qui l'amene... lithograph 19th century
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder) Tapisseries engraving 1670
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder) Tapisseries engraving 1670
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder) Tapisseries: Water engraving 1670
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder) Tapisseries: Fire engraving 1670
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Double-Barrel Percussion Shotgun, 1866 Made by J.C.A. Brun, (active 1849-1872); Designed by Fannières Brothers; Engraved
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Gerard Edelinck Carolus Le Brun... 17th - 18th century
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Self-portrait Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on canvas; Oval, 25 1/4 x 21
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Self-Portrait c. 1781 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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Johan George Wille Louis XIV Panel 18th - 19th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - The Comte de Vandreuil 1784 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of a Russian Countess 1797 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of Madame du Barry 1782 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art French
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Study of a Woman undated Red chalk Sheet:
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Portrait of M. Quatrehomme du Lys
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Jean Audran From the Battles of Alexander the Great: Alexander attacking Perseus engraving etching 17th - 18th century
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Princess Eudocia Nanovna Galitzine as Flora 1799 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucqoi 1793 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Le Mois de Décembre
Museum of Fine Arts -
Statuette of Zeus Gold Greek, Northern Greek Classical Period or Modern 4th century B.C. or
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
An Allegory, Perhaps of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 French Painter,
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Elizabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse 1784 oil on wood panel The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art French
Museum of Fine Arts -
Oak wreath Greek Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period 4th century B.C. Gold Diameter: 3.5
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Spring Date: about 1680 Medium: embroidery, worked in petit point or
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Self-portrait with Two Pupils, Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818) and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond (died
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Portrait of a Young Woman about 1797 Oil
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Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays (Deshays de Colleville) The Abduction of Helen oil on canvas circa 1761
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Bust of Winter
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Jean Audran La Vertu es digne de L'Empire du Monde. Alexandre apres plusieurs victoires, deffit Darius dans la bataille qu'l donna pres d'Arbelle & ce dernier combat ayant acheve de renverser des Perses tout l'orient tu soumia a l'Empire des Macedon
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Artist: Michel Corneille Title: The Choice of Hercules Date: about 1685 Medium: pen and brown
Museum of Fine Arts -
Sarcophagus with trainers, trained lions, and prey Relief Roman Later Roman Imperial Period, probably about
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Jacques Charles Bar Charles Rollin 18th - 19th century
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Philippe de Champaigne - Charles II 1653 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Richard Verbrick - Charles Cox 1835 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
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John Smibert, American (born in Scotland), 1688-1751 Judge Charles Chambers 1743 Oil on canvas 121.6
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Pierre Charles Ingouf Paul-Charles Lorry 18th - 19th century
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Charles Turner Charles John, Crown Prince of Sweden 18th - 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Air, Hanging, ca. 1683 French; Made/manufactured: Paris, FranceSilk, wool, metal thread on canvas 316 stitches
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Multiple Artists Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemandsä (Paris: the author [and] Amsterdam: Pierre Fouquet, 1792), vol. 1 book with engravings 1792
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Actualites: Entrvue de Charles-quint et de Francois 1er, au pre-catelan... Lithograph 19th century
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Charles Dana Gibson London (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sons, 1897) book with reproductions of various media 1897
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Charles Dana Gibson Other People (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sonsä, 1911) book with reproductions of drawings 1911
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Pieter Cristoffel Wonder - Charles Thompson c. 1818 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Joseph Goodhue Chandler - Charles H. Sisson 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Etienne Carjat - Charles Baudelaire 1861 woodburytype National Gallery of Art French
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Robert Feke - Charles Apthorp 1748 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Charles Hobson Frontispiece illustration in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure 1996
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Charles Geoffson D. JOS… ZORILLA Lithograph 19th century
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The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo, cassone panel, 1407? Master of Charles of
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Joseph H. Haske Charles Haley with Dog oil on canvas 1830 - 1840
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the fifth story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the first story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the third story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the second story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Holroyd A Yew Tree on Glarawara Etching 1903
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the seventh story oin in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the fourth story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Charles Hobson Illustration for the sixth story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) photogravure under mylar drawing 1996
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Antoine-Louis Barye - Charles VII the Victorious on Horseback c. 1844-1860 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Thomas Crawford - Bust of Charles Brooks 1843 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Francisco de Goya - Charles IV of Spain as Huntsman c. 1799-1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Thomas Sully - Captain Charles Stewart 1811-1812 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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George Henry Harlow - Professor Charles Hague c. 1813 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Saint Charles Borromeo 1767-69 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum Italian
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Charles Edouard De Beaumont Les jolies femmes de Paris - A quoi sert un Kings-Charles de cinquante Ècus,.. Lithograph 19th century
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John Wollaston - Mrs. Charles Carroll of Annapolis 1753-54 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Edouard Manet - A King Charles Spaniel c. 1866 oil on linen National Gallery of Art French
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Chester Harding - Charles Carroll of Carrollton c. 1828 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Charles Carnan Ridgely 1820 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Hobson Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson ( San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996) accordion book with seven photogravures under drawings on mylar sheets and one photogravure frontispiece 1996
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Charles Holroyd The Prodigal Son Etching 19th - 20th century
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Charles Dana Gibson The Gibson Book. A Collection of the published Worksä (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sonsä, 1906), vol. 1 book with reproductions 1906
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The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, 1648 Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish,
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Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger Headpiece for part 1 in the book De la maniËre de graver ‡ l'eau forte et au burin äby Abraham Bosse (Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758) etching and engraving 1758
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Charles Demuth Apples and Carrots watercolor on paper 1926
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Charles Holroyd A Tree Study Etching 19th - 20th century
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Charles Holroyd Yalding Bridge Etching 19th - 20th century
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Charles Vernier Les Grisettes - Tiens...tu ne m'avais pas dit que cette amee-ci Charles t'avait representee en Duchesse...l'an prochain tu passeras Princesse. lithograph 1858

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Louvre Museum: Pieter Boel, Painter of Louis XIV's Animals - The collection of painted studies from the Gobelins
Since more than a century onwards, Pieter Boel' s studies, there are 80 of th...
Kimbell Art Museum: Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family
The exhibition will draw upon the collections of The State Hermitage and The State Russian Museums to assemble works of art acquired, sponsored, or commissioned by ...
Frick Collection: Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
The École des Beaux-Arts has seldom placed such a large number of sheets on loan at any given time, and this exhibition will include many drawings that have never been on view in the United States. Furthermore, several new acquisitions are to be ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Picasso érotique
To date, no museum has ever undertaken to present this essential dimension of the artist's creations. These works express a rare audacity and spirit of freedom, but have received very limit...

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