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Charles le Brun
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Suicide of Cato the Younger
Painting ID:: 81641
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Charles le Brun
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French Baroque Era Painter, 1619-1690
French painter and designer. He dominated 17th-century French painting as no other artist; it was not until over a century later, during the predominance of Jacques-Louis David, that artistic authority was again so concentrated in one man. Under the protection of a succession of important political figures, including Chancellor Pierre S?guier, Cardinal Richelieu and Nicolas Fouquet, Le Brun created a series of masterpieces of history and religious painting. For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape. After Colbert's death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions |
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Suicide of Cato the Younger |
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Date ca. 1646(1646)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 108 x 147 cm (42.5 x 57.9 in)
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