Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles
Charles Le Brun|Bernard Picart
early 18th century
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 · 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...