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Eustache Le Sueur

1616 - 1655

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Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 1617 – 30 April 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eustache Le Sueur has received more than 95,620 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eustache Le Sueur is the 877th most popular painter (up from 898th in 2019), the 2,548th most popular biography from France (up from 2,617th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eustache Le Sueur ranks 877 out of 2,023Before him are Vasily Tropinin, Paja Jovanović, François-Xavier Fabre, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, and Helen Frankenthaler. After him are Aert van der Neer, Jan Provoost, Joseph Anton Koch, Abraham Bosse, Beatrice Wood, and Denis Calvaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1616, Eustache Le Sueur ranks 11Before him are Anne Gonzaga, Thomas Bartholin, Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Andreas Gryphius, Sébastien Bourdon, and François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort. After him are Kuzma Minin, Caesar van Everdingen, Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, John Owen, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and Shah Shuja. Among people deceased in 1655, Eustache Le Sueur ranks 10Before him are Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Eleonora Gonzaga, Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Janusz Radziwiłł, Cristóbal de Morales, and Ukita Hideie. After him are Daniël Heinsius, Francesco Molin, Cornelis Schut, Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Nicolò Longobardo, and François Tristan l'Hermite.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eustache Le Sueur ranks 2,548 out of 6,770Before him are Philippe Garrel (1948), Jacques Laffitte (1767), Yves Allégret (1907), Georges Cadoudal (1771), Mathieu Amalric (1965), and Charles Rogier (1800). After him are Guillaume Dubois (1656), Pierre Fournier (1906), Gérard Oury (1919), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), Marcellin Champagnat (1789), and Eric Abidal (1979).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eustache Le Sueur ranks 162Before him are Roman Opałka (1931), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Carolus-Duran (1837), François-Xavier Fabre (1766), and Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761). After him are Abraham Bosse (1604), Adolphe Monticelli (1824), Henri Gervex (1852), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), and Paul Émile Chabas (1869).