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 ennobled him, gave him the general care of all works of art in royal buildings, and made him director of the Gobelins, and successively rector, chancellor, and director of the Academy of Painting. In 1666 Le Brun induced the king to found the French Academy at Rome, where, though absent, he was made prince of the Academy of St. Luke. After the death of Colbert the fortunes of Le Brun declined, through the enmity of Louvois, who brought so much trouble upon him that he sickened and died. He was an extremely able and prolific painter, who belonged to a theatrical and mannered school. Works: Adoration of Shepherds (2), Sleep of Infant Jesus (1655), Holy Family, Christ served in Desert by Angels, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1689), Christ bearing his Cross (1687), Christ on the Cross (1685), Crucifix with Angels (1686), Christ dead on Virgin's Knees, Descent of Holy Spirit, Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1651), Repentant Magdalen, Fall of Rebellious Angels, Mucius Scævola before Porsena (1639), Death of Cato, Passage of the Granicus, Battle of Arbela, Tent of Darius, Alexander and Porus, Alexander entering Babylon, Meleager and Atalanta Hunting, Death of Meleager, Mars and Venus, Portrait of Charles Le Brun, do. of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, Louvre; Establishment of the Invalides, Founding of the Order of St. Louis, Baptism of the Dauphin, The King visiting the Gobelins, Founding of the Observatory, Louis XIV. apologizing in the Name of Spain, Giving the Keys of Marsal to Louis XIV., Renewal of the Swiss Alliance, Marriage of Louis XIV. to Maria of Austria, Versailles Museum; Descent from Cross, Rennes Museum; Nymph pursued by a River, Bordeaux Museum; Louis XIV. with Conquered Nations at his Feet, Lyons Museum; Baptism of Christ, Daniel in Lions' Den, Last Judgment, Caën Museum; Father Eternal in Glory, Nantes Museum; Hercules and Cacus, Lille Museum; St. John the Apostle in Ecstasy, Nîmes Museum; Christ in the Garden, Crucifixion, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait of Banker Jabach and his Family, Berlin Museum; Prophet Elijah and the Priests of Baal, Musée Rath, Geneva; Repentant Magdalen, John Evangelist in Patmos, Portrait of Aged Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Boar-Hunt, Stuttgart Museum; Portrait of a General, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Magdalen, Venice Academy; Horatius defending the Bridge, The Musicians, Massacre of Innocents, Dulwich Gallery; Centaurs and Lapiths, Earl of Darnley; Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, Earl of Yarborough; Peace of Nimwegen, National Gallery, Pesth; Perseus and Andromeda, Lord Nelthorp; Visitation, Lord Feversham; Decorations of the great staircase and ceiling of the great gallery (1679-80), Versailles; Mural paintings at St. Germain, and in Castle and Pavilion of Sceaux.—Bellier, i. 944; Ch. Blanc, École française; Jal, 751; Keane, Early Masters, 511; Larousse; Mémoires inédits, i. 1; Stothert, 91; L'Art, xiii. 3; xvi. 137, 238.

LE BRUN, Mme. MARIE LOUISE ELISABETH (née Vigée), born in Paris, April 16, 1755, died there, March 30, 1842. French school; portrait, history, and landscape painter. Taught drawing by her father, portrait painter, and by Briard, painting by Doyen and Joseph Vernet; perfected herself by study of the old masters at the Louvre, and at the