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Eustache Le Sueur
French Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1655.
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important painters of historical, mythological and religious pictures in 17th-century France and one of the founders of French classicism. He was long considered the 'French Raphael' and the equal of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Le Brun. His reputation reached its zenith in the first half of the 19th century, but since then it has been in decline, largely as a result of the simplified and saccharine image of the man and his art created by Romantic writers and painters. Nevertheless, more recent recognition of the complexity of his art has resulted in a new interest in him and in his place in the evolution of French painting in the 17th century. Despite the almost total absence of signed and dated works, the chronology of Le Sueur's oeuvre can be established with the aid of a few surviving contracts, dated engravings after his paintings and the list of works published by Le Comte in 1700.
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Painting ID:: 33613
Meplomene Erato und Polymnia
mk86
c.1652-1655
Oil on canvas
130x130cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 70395
Cupid Ordering Mercury to Announce his Power to the Universe
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions ? ?? cm
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Painting ID:: 40466
Eutepe and Thalia
mk156
c.1643
Oil on canvas
130x130cm
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Painting ID:: 43230
Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus
mk170
1648-1649
OIl on canvas
102.9x86.4cm
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Painting ID:: 55732
Melpomene Erato and Polyhmia
mk244
c.1652-1655
Oil on canvas
130x130cm
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Eustache Le Sueur
French Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1655.
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important painters of historical, mythological and religious pictures in 17th-century France and one of the founders of French classicism. He was long considered the 'French Raphael' and the equal of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Le Brun. His reputation reached its zenith in the first half of the 19th century, but since then it has been in decline, largely as a result of the simplified and saccharine image of the man and his art created by Romantic writers and painters. Nevertheless, more recent recognition of the complexity of his art has resulted in a new interest in him and in his place in the evolution of French painting in the 17th century. Despite the almost total absence of signed and dated works, the chronology of Le Sueur's oeuvre can be established with the aid of a few surviving contracts, dated engravings after his paintings and the list of works published by Le Comte in 1700.
. Related Artists to Eustache Le Sueur: | Bicci Di Neri | Kasimir Sergeevich Malevich | Pierre-Jacques Volaire | Joseph Nigg | John H F Bacon |
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