Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun
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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun was a French painter, art collector and art dealer. Simon Denis was his pupil.
Self-Portrait, c. 1795, private collection
Peter Paul Rubens, Suzanne Fourment, c. 1625; bought by Lebrun for the Louvre in 1793
Charles Le Brun
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Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French a
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun
…in Paris, he was the son of the painter Pierre Le Brun (1704–1771), who was himself a great-nephew to the renowned painter of King Louis XIV's reign, Charles Le Brun. From 1775 onwards he became one of the main art dealers and painting experts in Paris, specialising in restoring old masters, particularly Dutch ones…
Charles Le Brun, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière
Portrait of Nicolas Le Brun by Charles Le Brun, c. 1635, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
Venus Clipping Cupid's Wings, c. 1655, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Part of the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles