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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun

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Images about Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun

15 images from works
  • A fishing boat drawn up on to the beach at Scheveningen, surrounded by fishermen and a fishwife selling fish to customers. Etching by C. Weisbrod and engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1779, after P. Bout.
  • A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
  • Zenobia, ruler of the Palmyrene empire, is besieged in Antioch by the Roman emperor Aurelian, and gives orders for the moving of her treasure: a man carrying a large vessel filled with coins carries it past the tomb of Odenathus. Line engraving by Charles Etienne Gaucher, 1789, after J. Werner.
  • A boy blowing bubbles. Engraving by M. Blot, 1792, after F. van Mieris.
  • An allegory celebrating Dutch painters. Engraving by J.A. Pierron after P. Peyron.
  • Leda and the swan. Engraving by L. Garreau after J. Verkolje.
  • A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
  • A woman feeding her baby while her husband reads a book in a rural domestic environment. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after A. de Gelder.
  • A boy holding a mouse trap on his knees and a dead mouse in his right hand sits with his feet immersed in a pool. Line engraving by H. Guttenberg after P.C. van Slingelandt.
  • People playing a game of skittles (bowling) in the garden of an inn, as others sit on the grass drinking, smoking and chatting. Engraving by E. de Ghendt after J. Steen.

Works from the collections

16 works

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    Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

    Cornelis Dusart | Date: [1787] | Reference: 3006309i
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    An old shoemaker is stitching a boot as a young woman leans over him holding a jug in her hand. Engraving by P. Duflos, 1778 after D. van Tol.

    Domenicus van Tol | Date: [1778] | Reference: 29847i
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    A fishing boat drawn up on to the beach at Scheveningen, surrounded by fishermen and a fishwife selling fish to customers. Etching by C. Weisbrod and engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1779, after P. Bout.

    Bout, Pieter, approximately 1640-1689. | Date: [1779] | Reference: 29863i
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    Astronomy: a scholar in his study, plotting points on a globe. Engraving by L. Garreau after J. Vermeer.

    Johannes Vermeer | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 46323i
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    Jupiter orders Notus (the south wind) to flood the Earth: as the water rises, people try to escape. Engraving by L. Garreau after A. van Diepenbeeck.

    Abraham van Diepenbeeck | Date: 1771-1791 | Reference: 524674i
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