1650
Canvas,94 x 71 1/4''(239 x 181 cm)Given by the king of Naples,Ferdinand IV,to the French government in compensation for the Pictures removed from the Church of San Luigi in Rome by the Neapolitan troops,1802.Musee Napoleon INV
Painting ID:: 20576
LE BRUN, Charles Canvas ,36 x 46''(91 x 117 cm)Collection of Louis XIV The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05) French painter (b. 1619, Paris, d. 1690, Paris)
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
