Charles Le Brun – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Charles Le Brun, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolas_de_Largilli%C3%A8re_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Le_Brun_-_WGA12471.jpg

Basic data

Lebrun, Charles Alternative Names
February 24, 1619 in Paris
†

February 12, 1690 in Paris
Maler, Architekt
Paris

Iconography

Charles Le Brun, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Nicolas Le Brun by Charles Le Brun, c. 1635, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg (Source: Wikimedia)

Venus Clipping Cupid's Wings, c. 1655, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico (Source: Wikimedia)

Part of the ceilling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (Source: Wikimedia)

Alexander and Porus, painted 1673 (Source: Wikimedia)

Chancellor Séguier and his suite, ca. 1670, Musée du Louvre (Source: Wikimedia)

Charles le Brun, The Expressions (Source: Wikimedia)

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1647, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Source: Wikimedia)

Tapis de Savonnerie, under Louis XIV, after Charles Le Brun, made for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre (Source: Wikimedia)

Three lion-like heads, 1671, pen and wash on squared paper (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Carlo Le Brun, Campiglia, Giovanni Domenico - 1720/1759 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Ch. Le Brun, Augustin de Saint-Aubin - 1751/1807 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Carol LeBrun, Georg Christoph Kilian (zugeschrieben) - 1741/1781 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Carolvs Le Brvn, Gérard Edelinck - 1682/1707 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Charles Le Brun, Jacques Lubin - 1696 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Carolvs Le Brvn, Gérard Edelinck - 1668/1707 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Carolvs Le Brvn, Gérard Edelinck - 1668/1707 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Charles Le Brun, Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville - 1696 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Charles Le Brun, Gérard Edelinck - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Charles Le Brun, Bure l'aîné, de - 1745 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A007942 (Version 4.12.0 of April 8, 2025)
Last change of this document on December 16, 2017

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