page_title: Charles Le Brun
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Le Brun / Biography
context_page_description: Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
caption: Portrait of Nicolas Le Brun by Charles Le Brun, ca. 1635, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
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