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Brun, Charles Le
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1655
Canvas_34_1/4_x_46_1/2''(87_x_118_cm).Collection_of_Louis_XIV;given_to_Louis_XIV_in_1696_INV
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Holy Family with the Infant Jesus Asleep (mk05)
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Canvas 34 1/4 x 46 1/2''(87 x 118 cm).Collection of Louis XIV;given to Louis XIV in 1696 INV |
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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
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