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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 28 (1993)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 28

"Children of the Sun King: Some Reconsiderations"

Standen, Edith A.
1993
7 pages
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Edith Appleton Standen

Met Art in Publication

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), Charles Le Brun French, Canvas; silk, wool, and metal-thread embroidery in tent stitch (316 stitches per sq. inch, 49 per sq. cm.), French, Paris
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Designer Possibly after a design by Charles Le Brun
Designer Border probably designed by Jean Lemoyne le Lorrain
Patron Commissioned for Marquise de Montespan
ca. 1683

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