Grand Escalier du Chateau de Versailles dit Escalier des Ambassadeurs
Medium
Engraving, etching
Dimensions
Overall: 21 1/16 x 16 x 7/8 in. (53.5 x 40.7 x 2.3 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1991.1073.55
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Le Brun|Charles Antoine Coypel|Charles Parrocel|Louis Surugue|Jean Michel Chevotet|Charles Simonneau|Loire|L. C. LeFevre · 1619–1690
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) was the most powerful artistic figure in seventeenth-century France, serving as the virtual dictator of official taste during the reign of Louis XIV and shaping the visual identity of the French Baroque in ways that resonated for generations. Born in Paris, he trained under the painter Simon Vouet before traveling to Rome in 1642, where he studied the works of Nicolas P...