The King’s first painter: Charles Le Brun

To mark the 300th anniversary of Louis XIV’s death we have produced a series of films exploring objects in the Collection which help reveal the powerful myth of Louis ‘The Sun King’. In this film Laura Langelüddecke, our Assistant Curator, explores the impact on the arts of Louis’ first painter, Charles Le Brun.

Film by Jamie Isbell, music by Oscar Webster Bell.