Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles

Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles by Charles Le Brun|Bernard Picart

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 3/4 in. (13.7 × 9.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018

Accession Number

2018.844.2

About the Artist

Charles Le Brun|Bernard Picart · 16191690

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...

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