Charles Le Brun

CHARLES LE BRUN, (Paris, 1619 - 1690).
"Battle of Alexander the Great".
Three engravings on paper.
Signed in plate and titled in the lower area.
Measurements: 20 x 40 cm, 25 x 45 cm (frame), each one.

The three engravings represent different scenes of the battle of Alexander the Great, these same scenes are represented in oil paintings in major museums such as the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Charles Le Brun was a French painter and an important art theorist. He trained in the workshop of Simon Vouet as a child, receiving commissions from Cardinal Richeliu at the age of fifteen. Between 1642 and 1646 he was in Rome, coming into contact with works by Raphael, Guido Reni, the Bolognese school, etc., and where he was also a disciple of Poussin. He returned to Paris, and continued with an important work, reaching his stylistic maturity towards the middle of the century (classicist and elegant painting). He was ennobled by Louis XIV, who named him Premier Peintre du Roi in 1664. His work is preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris, Versailles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States), the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon (France), the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg (Russia), the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (United States), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, etc.