LE 13 RUN ennobled him, gave him the general care of all works of art in royal buildings, and made him director of the Gobelins, and succes- sively rector, chancellor, and director of the Academy of Painting. In 166G Le Brun induced the king to found the French Acad- emy 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 (1055), Holy Fam- ily, Christ served in Desert by Angels, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1689), Christ bearing his Cross (1G87), Christ on the Cross (1G85), Crucifix with Angels (1G8G), Christ dead on Virgin's Knees, Descent of Holy Spirit, Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1651), Repentant Magdalen, Fall of Rebellious Angels, jl/Mct't<.s Scsevola before Porsena (1G39), Death of Cain, Passage of the Graii- icus, Battle of Arbcla, Tent of Darius, Alex- ander and Porus, Alc.mnih'r entering Baby- lon, Meleager and Atalanta Hunting, Death of Meleager, Mars and Venus, Portrait of Charles Le Brun, do. of Charles Alphouse du Fresuoy, Louvre ; Establishment of the Invalides, Founding of the Order of St. Louis, Baptism of the Dauphin, The King visiting the Gobelins, Founding of the Ob- servatory, Louis XIV. apologizing in the Name of Spain, Giving the Keys of Marsal to Louis XIV., Renewal of the Swiss Alli- ance, Marriage of Louis XIV. to Maria of Austria, Versailles Museum ; Descent from Cross, Renues Museum ; Nymph pursued by a River, Bordeaux Museum ; Louis XIV. with Conquered Nations at his Feet, Lyons Museum ; Baptism of Christ, Daniel in Li- ons' Den, Last Judgment, Caen Museum ; Father Eternal in Glory, Nantes Museum ; Hercules and Cacus, Lille Museum ; St. John the Apostle in Ecstasy, Nimes Muse- um ; Christ in the Garden, Crucifixion, Her- mitage, St. Petersburg ; Portrait of Banker Jabach and his Family, Berlin Museum ; Prophet Elijah and the Priests of Baal, Mu- see Rath, Geneva; Repentant Magdalen, John Evangelist in Patmos, Portrait of Aged Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Boar- Hunt, Stuttgart Museum ; Portrait of a Gen- eral, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Mag- dalen, Venice Academy ; Horatius defending the Bridge, The Musicians, Massacre of In- nocents, Dulwich Gallery ; Centaurs and Lapiths, Earl of Daruley ; Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, Earl of Yarborough ; Peace of Nimwegen, National Gallery, Pesth ; Perse- us and Andromeda, Lord Nelthorp ; Visita- tion, Lord Feversham ; Decorations of the great staircase and ceiling of the great gal- u lery (1G79-80), Versailles ; Mural paintings at St. Germain, and in Castle and Pavil- ion of Sceaux. Bellier, i. 944 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole fran<;aise ; Jal, 751 ; Keaue, Early Masters, 511 ; Larousse ; Memoires iiu'dits, i. 1 ; Stothert, 91 ; L'Art, xiii. 3 ; xvi. 137, 238. LE BRUN, Mine. MARIE LOUISE ELISABETH (IH'O Vigi'e), born in Paris, April 16, 1755, died there, March 30, 1842. French school ; por- trait, history, and landscape painter. Taught drawing by her father, portrait painter, and by Briard, paint- ing by Doyen and Jo- seph Veruet ; perfected herself by study of the old masters at the Louvre, and at the
