Louis Le Brun (born 28 February 2002) is a French rugby union player. He currently plays as a centre, fly-half or full-back for Castres in the Top 14...
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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...
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Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; née Vigée; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply...
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Jeanne-Julie-Louise Le Brun (married name Julie Nigris; 12 February 1780 – 8 December 1819), nicknamed "Brunette", was the daughter of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and was...
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Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the...
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Louis Le Vau (French pronunciation: [lwi lə vo]; c. 1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was...
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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (redirect from Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun)
painter Pierre Le Brun (1704–1771), who was himself a great-nephew to the renowned painter of King Louis XIV's reign, Charles Le Brun. From 1775 onwards...
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Marie Antoinette and Her Children (category Paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
perception of the queen, later that year, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was commissioned by Louis XVI to paint an official portrait depicting Marie Antoinette...
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comprising Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and...
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Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (category Paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
met strohoed) is a self-portrait by the French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted after 1782, in oil on linen, measuring 97.8 by 70.5 centimetres...
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generosity. When Fouquet became King Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances in 1656, he commissioned Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre to renovate his estate and...
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Marie Antoinette with a Rose (category Paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
Revolution and ten years prior to the eventual beheading of Louis XVI and the queen. Vigée Le Brun was enrolled at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on...
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Colbert, King Louis XIV's trusted minister, as Vice-protecteur. Colbert took full strategic control and, working through Charles Le Brun, ensured that...
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trompe-l'œil painting inspired by a fresco created by Charles Le Brun for the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, which took master painters several months to create...
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Gobelins Manufactory (section Colbert and Le Brun)
The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, London 2016 Lacordaire, Notice historique sur les Manufactures impériales de tapisseries...
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idolization Louis XIV as the Sun King and to the successes of the first two decades of his personal rule (starting in 1661). Charles Le Brun, "the greatest...
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was originally a student of Louis Boullogne. In 1666, he found employment as a member of the workshop of Charles Le Brun, the Premier peintre du Roi,...
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Childs & Peterson. pp. 2793–2794. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Louis, Le Brun; Henri van Laun (1869). Materials for translating from English into...
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of the painter Charles Le Brun for admittance to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The portrait shows Le Brun, then the chairman of the...
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Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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1656 and 1763. The facade was designed in the classical style by Charles Le Brun. It contains many notable art works from the 19th century, including a...
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Peace Bringing Back Abundance (category Paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
Abundance is a 1780 painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Louvre in Paris. Le Brun painted the work as her reception piece for admission...
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portraits. He was a near-contemporary of the Premier Peintre du Roi Charles Le Brun with whom he engaged in a bitter, life-long rivalry. Pierre Mignard was...
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Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas...
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Alexandre Brun also executed commissions for Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, barons Arthur and Edmond de Rothschild, and relatives, such as Louis Libreck...
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Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan (category Paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
French court sent by Tipu Sultan. The portrait was never sold, though Vigée Le Brun fled Paris and left it behind when the city was mobbed. The portrait of...
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Audran family (redirect from Louis Audran)
Gaspar Poussin. Thirty-one designs — Of Fountains, Friezes, &c.; after Le Brun. His plates are signed with his surname, and with his Christian name, in...
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When King Louis XIV had it enlarged in 1671, the pond's east–west orientation and the common association of the King with Apollo prompted Le Brun to suggest...
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Guy-Louis Vernansal (1648-1729) was a French painter. He studied under Charles Le Brun and produced tapestry designs for the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories...
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