# Portrait of the Sculptor Nicolas Le Brun [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE BRUN, Charles]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 87 x 69 cm ## Commentary Portrait of the Sculptor Nicolas Le Brun c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 87 x 69 cm Residenzgalerie, Salzburg Nicolas Le Brun, the painter's father, is depicted as an elegantly dressed gentleman with a red scarf wound decoratively around his left shoulder. He is turned to the beholder and pointing at a statuette - possibly a plaster cast of one of his sculptures entitled Antinous of Belvedere. Antinous, who drowned in the Nile during one of Hadrian's journeys to Egypt, was a favourite of the Roman emperor and was deified after his death. The Antinous motif was highly popular with both sculptors and painters in 17th-century France. The painting was originally attributed to the painter Jacques Blanchard as a likeness of the sculptor François Duquesnoy. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Aerial view]() - [Alexander and Porus \(detail\)]() - [Alexander and Porus]() - [Alexander and Porus]() - [Alexander Entering Babylon, or The Triumph of Alexander]() - [Alexander Entering Babylon, or The Triumph of Alexander]() - [Allegory: Sculpture Working on the King's Bust]() - [Apotheose of Louis XIV]() - [Capture of the City and Citadel of Gand in Six Days, 1678]() - [Chancellor Séguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris]() - [Crossing the Granicus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()