Great Britain has agreed to let New York’s Museum of Metropolitan Art purchase a rare Charles Le Brun portrait, reports the New York Times. The New York institution had arranged to purchase the piece ...

In 1607 the future Louis XIII was brought to the French countryside around the town of Versailles for his first hunt, and just like his father, Henri IV, he loved it—so much so that in 1621, after ...

ALAMEDA — The painting may need a cleaning to make its colors vivid again, but the image of Moses and the Israelites fleeing the Egyptians remains as powerful as when it was put on canvas more than ...

The Graphic Arts Collection holds seven prints believed to be part of the ten studies described as Etudes de chevaux de bataille blesses related to various battle scenes by Charles Le Brun (see ...

This monograph is the first to examine the wide artistic production of Louis XIV's most prolific and powerful artist, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), illustrating the magnificence of his paintings and ...

Whatever Louis XIV wanted, Louis XIV got—in art as well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King’s rays than Charles Le Brun, “First Painter ...

Charles Le Brun—the subject of Wolf Burchard’s beautifully presented book—had the rare combination of skill and social grace required to succeed in the faction-ridden, bureaucratic climate of Louis ...

In 1662, the print makers of the Cabinet du Roi were organized to create an engraved record of the celebrations held by Louis XIV. Five years later, the charge was expanded to include an engraved ...

A team of experts have been working on the restoration of the 1660 work A 17th Century painting by French artist Charles Le Brun, believed lost for almost two centuries, is being restored to its ...

A 17th Century painting by French artist Charles Le Brun, believed lost for almost two centuries, is being restored to its former glory. Christ in the Garden of Olives was bought by the Sun King, ...