Charles Le Brun

Tapisserie, laine, soie, fils d'argent et d'or, Bruxelles, fin XVIIème siècle (vers 1673), La Dispute de Méléagre et de ses Oncles tirée de la tenture de Méléagre, d'apres les cartons de Charles Le Brun (1619- 1690) et Francois Bellin ("- 1661) pour les paysages, avec sa bordure à décor de hure de sanglier, chiens, vase de fleurs, carquois et rinceaux, galon bleu avec la marque tissée BB (bel état général, petites usures,, restaurations, retissage dans les soies du ciel). Estimation : 60 000 - 80 000 € Cette tenture de... [Lire la suite]

Head of Alexander (fragment of a figure). Asia Minor, Bithynia (?), Roman copy, 1st century BC, after Greek original. 175-150 BC. Fine-grained marble, h 6 cm ©State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg No other king from antiquity has such a powerful appeal to the imagination as Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). No other king has been so often cited and depicted as an example. The exhibition The Immortal Alexander the Great will be on view from 18 September 2010 to 18 March 2011 in the Hermitage Amsterdam, with over 350... [Lire la suite]

Crossing of the Granicus (detail), Gérard Audran after Charles Le Brun , French, 1672.  Etching and engraving, four sheets, 27 9/16 x 54 3/16 in. (70 x 137.6 cm). 2003.PR.33. The Getty Research Institute © J. Paul Getty Trust From the early 1660s until the middle of the 1680s, Charles Le Brun (1619–90) had unprecedented control of the visual and decorative arts in France. A prodigious artist and designer, he was King Louis XIV's principal painter, leader of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, and director of... [Lire la suite]