The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 365
left behind him manyworks; such as the Cloister of the Chartreux, at Paris;Alexander, and his Physician, &c. that might rival theworks of the greatest painters for elegance of design,beauty of form, and truth of expression. He was defec-tive in colouring,—in that meretricious and ambitious… … ST. BRUNO ON HIS KNEES BEFORETHE CRUCIFIX. LE SUEUR. In the year 1648, Le Sueur, at the age of 31, began,by the desire of the Queen, the mother of Louis theFourteenth, to paint the history of St. Bruno, founder ofthe Order of the Chartreux, for the purpose of decoratingthe cloister of the Monastery…
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