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Charles Le Brun
17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 February 1619
- Died
- 22 February 1690, 12 February 1690
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles
- Family name
- Le Brun
- Father
- Nicolas Le Brun
- Mother
- Jeanne Le Brun
- Sibling
- Gabriel Le Brun
- Movement
- Classicism, Baroque
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, architect, decorator, designer, graphic artist, printmaker, architectural drafter, visual artist
- Position held
- Premier peintre du Roi
- Citizenship
- France
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- depicted by
- Portrait of Charles Le Brun
- described by source
- The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4, The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World. Tome 5
- has list
- Q61867644
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Design Museum Gent, Louvre Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- name in native language
- Charles Le Brun
- notable work
- Descent from the Cross, Descent from the Cross, Hall of Mirrors, Alexander Entering Babylon
- place of burial
- Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet
- student of
- François Perrier, Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin
- topic has template
- Template:Charles Le Brun
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Le Brun
- work location
- Versailles, Paris, Rome
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Galerie d'Apollon
- Alexander Entering Babylon
- escalier des Ambassadeurs
- The Chancelor Séguier
- The Adoration of the Shepherds
- The History of the King
- Carpet from the Louvre Grande Galerie
- The deification of Aeneas
- The Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander, also called The Tent of Darius
- The Sacrifice of Polyxena
- Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family
- Daedalus and Icarus
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