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Eustache Le Sueur

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eustache Le Sueur , 1616-55, French painter. He was a disciple of Vouet and a founding member of the Académie royale (1648). In his short life he painted many decorative works for apartments in the Louvre and for churches and convents. His work was greatly influenced by that of Poussin, whom he rivaled in popularity for a time. The Louvre contains his St. Paul Preaching at Ephesus and episodes from the Life of St. Bruno. Author not available, LE SUEUR, EUSTACHE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Le Sueur, Eustache
Le Sueur, Eustache (1616–55). French painter, active throughout his career in his native Paris. He was a pupil of Vouet , whose influence is...Louvre. In the last years of his life his chief model became Raphael , particularly through engravings of his tapestry designs. Le Sueur was a ... Read more
Le Sueur, Eustache
Le Sueur, Eustache ( b Paris, 19 Nov. 1616; d Paris, 30 Apr. 1655). French painter. He was a pupil of Vouet , whose influence is strong on his early...Louvre. In the last years of his life his chief model became Raphael , particularly through engravings of his tapestry designs. Le Sueur was a ... Read more

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; ...Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, banker, writer and entomologist, 1834; Joachim von Ribbentrop, politician, 1893. Deaths: Eustache Le Sueur, painter, 1655; Edouard Manet, Impressionist painter, 1883; Alfred Edward Housman, poet and scholar, 1936; Beatrice... Read more
Briefly: Nuns rejoice
; (First Edition) FIVE nuns at the oldest convent in England, the Bar Convent in York, rejoiced after learning that one of their paintings, The Crucifixion by the 17th-century French artist Eustache Le Sueur, could fetch pounds 500,000 at auction, safeguarding their threatened home. Read more
FOR SALE: THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL HOME ; The claims of estate agents usually arouse suspicion. But the hype generated by Paris's Hotel Lambert - where Voltaire and Chopin have both lived - is justified. By Jen Wainwright ++ A historic residence
; ...Sitting on the exclusive le-St-Louis, the Htel Lambert...1640 by the young Louis le Vau (who later designed...artists. Over five years, Eustache le Sueur and Charles Le Brun, famed for his painting...further five canvases by Le Sueur, which originally hung... Read more
Toujours poussin: French paintings.
; ...with a Paris showing of paintings by the Le Nain Brothers (Antoine, Louis and Mathieu...too far. The boring, placid paintings of Eustache Le Sueur and the studied, academic ones of Charles Le Brun and of others of their sort are best... Read more
Birthdays and Anniversaries
; ...Deaths: Pierre du Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard, soldier, killed 1524; John Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, soldier, 1632; Eustache Le Sueur, painter, 1655; James Montgomery, journalist, poet and hymn-writer, 1854; Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer, 1855... Read more
World's top art dealers plan capital showcase
; ...top three floors will be run, as before, as a Wildenstein outlet. A masterpiece by the 17th- century French painter Eustache Le Sueur, Christ on the Cross with Mary Magdalen, the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, sold for a record pounds 397,500... Read more
Bar Convent develops a winning habit
; ...that was sold to the National Gallery for 450,000 in 1994. The money raised from the sale of The Crucifixion, by Eustache Le Sueur, was used to pay for essential maintenance and to ensure the foundations were laid for the convent's future success... Read more

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