Eustace Lesueur
Eustace Lesueur or Sweat , born with Paris the November 19th 1616 and died in Paris the April 30th 1655, is a painter and French draftsman of style Baroque, considered as one of the founders of traditional French painting and sometimes called “the Raphaël French”.
Biography
Wire of a wood-carver, he is the pupil of Simon Vouet and becomes one of the first professors of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture. Its art reflects an extremely rare will of examination for the time, so undoubtedly marking the difference between decorative painting and académisante of its contemporaries. Sometimes one compared it with primitive Italian. He is regarded today as one of the most personal painters of the 17th century, one of those which could escape, at least partly, with the empire of the Académisme resulting from the Italian baroque.The first work of consequence which he undertook was the Vie of Saint-Bruno , whom he painted in 22 tables in the cloister of the Chartreux of Paris. As a draftsman, it is known inter alia for its illustrations of the Songe of Poliphile .
Eustace Lesueur had in particular as pupils Claude Lefèbvre and Jean Clermont.
Critical fortune
- Théophile Gautier, did not appreciate really Lesueur. It quotes it in a poem dedicated to Zurbaran.
Gallery
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