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: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacques Lubin, Portrait of Charles Le Brun, premier Peintre du Roy, 1696
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Charles Le Brun , Head of a Winged Cherub (facing right), circa 1690 - 1700
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Charles Le Brun , Head of a Winged Cherub (facing left), circa 1690 - 1700
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
GÈrard or Girard Audran, Massacre of the Children, (Jeremia Chp. 31, vers. 15) After Charles Le Brun, 17th - 18th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Ten Panels
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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Franz Brun, Terpsichore, 16th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Bacchante, 1785
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EugÈnie Le Brun, L"EveillÈe, 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Atelier of a Painter, Probably Madame Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), and Her Pupil Marie Victoire
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Louis-Auguste Brun, Studies of a Dog, 18th - 19th century
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Franz Brun, Village dancers, 16th century
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Gerard Edelinck, Carolus Le Brun..., 17th - 18th century
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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Charles Le brun - The Holy Family n.d. oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Louis-Auguste Brun, Studies of a Dog and a Hare, 18th - 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Tapestry: Chariot of Triumph
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Gavarni, Le Carnaval a Paris: Viola la petite avec le brun qui l"amene..., 19th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, (formerlyCount.of Mornington), 1791
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Gustav Adolf Muller, Louise Elisabeth VigeÈ Le Brun de l"AcadÈmie Royale de Peinture, 18th century
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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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
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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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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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Portrait of M. Quatrehomme du Lys
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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
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Study of a Woman undated Red chalk Sheet:
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Le Mois de Décembre
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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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
An Allegory, Perhaps of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 French Painter,
Museum of Fine Arts -
Statuette of Zeus Gold Greek, Northern Greek Classical Period or Modern 4th century B.C. or
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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
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Spring Date: about 1680 Medium: embroidery, worked in petit point or
Museum of Fine Arts -
Oak wreath Greek Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period 4th century B.C. Gold Diameter: 3.5
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Self-portrait with Two Pupils, Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818) and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond (died
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Bust of Winter

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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