Charles Le Brun
Medium
engraving over etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 21.6 x 14.7 cm (8 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John O'Brien
Accession Number
1986.88.23
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
This elegant engraving, *Charles Le Brun*, captures the likeness of the renowned 17th-century French painter and artist Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), who rose to prominence as First Painter to King Louis XIV and director of the Académie Royale Peinture et de Sculpture Created by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, a masterful French engraver from a celebrated family of artists, in 1805, this print revives Le Brun's legacy during the Napoleonic era, when admiration for Versailles-era grandeur was resurgent amid France's cultural renaissance. Saint-Aubin's technique—etching for fluid lines followed by fine...
About the Artist
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1736–1807
Comment on works: Illustrator; Engraver