Two Muses
Charles Le Brun
17th century
Medium
Red chalk, heightened with white, on beige paper
Dimensions
14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (36 x 25 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1986
Accession Number
1986.48
Tags
FlutesMuses
About the Artist
Charles Le Brun · 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...