Charles Le Brun

1619–1690 · Baroque

Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time". Le Brun was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and was influenced by Nicolas Poussin.

37 paintings

• Saint Louis en prière, vénérant la couronne d'épines
• Musée Ingres-Bourdelle - Allégorie à la gloire de Louis XIV - Charles Le Brun (1690)
• Saint Jean l'évangéliste à Patmos (1658)
• Effigie funéraire d'Henriette Sélincart (1680)
• Portrait of Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680) (1650)
• Portrait of Marie Casimire Sobieska with a crown and sceptre. (1676)
• Portrait of Marie Casimire Sobieska with a crown and sceptre. (1676)
• Portrait équestre de Louis XIV (1668)
• Portrait of Charles Perrault (1665)
• Mucius Scaevola devant Porsenna
• Descent from the Cross (1640)
• The deification of Aeneas (1642)
• capture the citadel (1681)
• Order restored in the Kingdom's finances (1681)
• The King governs by himself, 1661 (1681)
• The Holy Family in Egypt (1660)
• The Massacre of the Innocents (1665)
• Horatius Cocles defending the Bridge (1642)
• The Road to Calvary (1600)
• Allegorical Female Figure with Two Putti (1640)
• America (1675)
• The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1647)
• Apotheosis of Luis XIV. (1660)
• Apotheosis of Louis XIV (1677)
• The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1645)
• Portrait of the Cologne banker and collector Everhard Jabach with his family (1680)
• The Martyrdom of St. Andrew (1646)
• L'Élévation de la Croix (1685)
• The Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander, also called The Tent of Darius (1650)
• Alexander Entering Babylon (1664)
• Le Tombeau de Sénèque (1650)
• Evening (1662)
• The Chancelor Séguier (1660)
• La Lapidation de saint Étienne by Charles Le Brun (1651)
• Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715) (1662)
• The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1647)
• The Jabach Family (ca. 1660)