LE SUEUR, Eustache A Gathering of Friends af Painting ID:: 7831 LE SUEUR, Eustache1.jpg
A Gathering of Friends af 1640-42
Oil on canvas, 127 x 195 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
LE SUEUR, Eustache The Muses: Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia sf Painting ID:: 7833 LE SUEUR, Eustache3.jpg
The Muses: Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia sf 1652-55
Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
LE SUEUR, Eustache The Muse Terpsichore wf Painting ID:: 7834 LE SUEUR, Eustache4.jpg
The Muse Terpsichore wf 1652-55
Oil on panel, 116 x 74 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
LE SUEUR, Eustache St Bruno Examining a Drawing of the Baths of Diocletian Location of the Future Charterhouse of Rome (mk05) Painting ID:: 20622 new6/LE SUEUR, Eustache-863832.jpg
St Bruno Examining a Drawing of the Baths of Diocletian Location of the Future Charterhouse of Rome (mk05) Wood 64 x 45''(162 x 114 cm)Fragment One of a series of paintings placed in the corners of the small cloister at the Charterhouse of Paris and which,according to tradition evoked the charterhouses of Rome,Paris,Pavia,and Grenoble Seized in the Revolution INV
LE SUEUR, Eustache The Muses: Clio, Euterpe and Thalia Painting ID:: 29633 new3/LE SUEUR, Eustache-565534.jpg
The Muses: Clio, Euterpe and Thalia 1652-55
Oil on wood, 130 x 130 cm
LE SUEUR, Eustache The Muses: Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia Painting ID:: 29634 new3/LE SUEUR, Eustache-425575.jpg
The Muses: Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia 1652-55
Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm
French painter (b. 1616/17, Paris, d. 1655, Paris).
French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important painters of historical, mythological and religious pictures in 17th-century France and one of the founders of French classicism. He was long considered the 'French Raphael' and the equal of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Le Brun. His reputation reached its zenith in the first half of the 19th century, but since then it has been in decline, largely as a result of the simplified and saccharine image of the man and his art created by Romantic writers and painters. Nevertheless, more recent recognition of the complexity of his art has resulted in a new interest in him and in his place in the evolution of French painting in the 17th century. Despite the almost total absence of signed and dated works, the chronology of Le Sueur's oeuvre can be established with the aid of a few surviving contracts,