Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun made his name as a painter with the decoration of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte belonging to Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of finance to Louis XIV.
During his career, Le Brun took charge of the decoration of the royal palaces of the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Château de Marly and the Palace of Versailles. His masterpiece is the decoration of the great Hall of Mirrors, whose murals were painted by his own hand.
But he was also one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, the director of the Gobelins tapestry works and the curator of the royal collections. Le Brun reached the peak of his glory and social ascent in 1662, when he was ennobled by Louis XIV.