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| Adoration of the Shepherds 1689 |
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| Penitent Magdalene 1655 |
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| Descent from the Cross 1648 |
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| Pieta 1643 |
The careerism that permitted Charles Le Brun to cover endless royal ceilings with inflated heroics evidently did not penetrate every corner of his personality. These devotional pieces are clearly expressions of honest and spontaneous feeling, to be set in the artist's favor against his eager subservience to the Sun King and his minions.