Sébastien Le Clerc the elder (French, 1637-1714)
after Charles Le Brun French, 1619-1690
Defeat of the Spanish Army Near the Canal at Bruges by the Troops of King Louis XIV 1667
INV-1090
Sébastien Le Clerc the elder (French, 1637-1714)
after Charles Le Brun French, 1619-16901680
Defeat of the Spanish Army Near the Canal at Bruges by the Troops of King Louis XIV 1667
Sébastien Le Clerc the elder (French, 1637-1714) after Charles Le Brun French, 1619-1690 →etchingprint
Date
1680
Medium
Engraving and etching in black on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 40.9 × 56.9 cm (16 1/8 × 22 7/16 in.); Sheet: 41.1 × 57 cm (16 3/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
The prolific printmaker Sébastien Le Clerc the Elder produced a series of historic subjects after the court painter Charles Le Brun’s tapestry models. This particular work celebrates the victory of King Louis XIV of France over the Spanish in 1667. The mounted figure facing the viewer is Louis XIV himself. Le Clerc retained the original composition’s ornamental borders, creating a fictive sense of the tapestry as a luxury object with its own framing device. While significantly smaller than a wall hanging, this print is nonetheless impressively filled with intricate detail.
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