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Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (1617 – 1655)

• Was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting.
• He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects.
• He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. 
• He was born in Paris, where he spent his entire life.
• His father, Cathelin Le Sueur, a turner and sculptor in wood, placed him with Vouet.
• Le Sueur was a prolific draftsman and many of his chalk drawings are in the Louvre’s Cabinet des Dessins.
• His pupils, were his wife's brother, Theodore Goussé, and three brothers of his own, as well as Claude Lefèbvre and Pierre Patel the landscape painter.
• Most of his works have been engraved, chiefly by Picart, B. Audran, Leclerc, Drevet, Chauveau, Poilly and Desplaces.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Meekness, 1650.
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