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LE BRUN, Charles
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Canvas_116_1/4_x_138_1/4''(295_x_351_cm)Acquired_from_the_descendants_of_the_sitter_in_1942
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The Chancellor Seguier (mk05)
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| Canvas 116 1/4 x 138 1/4''(295 x 351 cm)Acquired from the descendants of the sitter in 1942 |
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French painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
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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