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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study - Flying Angel ca. 1674 drawing (study for cupola decoration, Château de Sceaux) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Draped Figure in Clouds ca. 1679-84 drawing (study for vault decoration, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1679-84 drawing (study for vault decoration, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study for Flying Figure ca. 1679-84 drawing (study for vault decoration, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1674-79 drawing (study for vault decoration, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Draped Figure ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1653 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1653 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Drapery Study ca. 1680 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Entry of Christ into Jerusalem ca. 1688-89 drawing (drapery study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Entry of Christ into Jerusalem ca. 1688-89 drawing (drapery study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Esther before Ahasuerus ca. 1660-65 drawing (drapery and figure studies for painting) Musée du Louvre |
"The grand style is also a product of great attention to drapery, so much so that often the grandeur and nobility of a figure depend on the choice of a particular fold, or on the choice of the material disposed in one manner or other. On occasion the grandeur will result from a certain chance disorder in the drapery, as in the work of Correggio. On other occasions it is the result of order in the folds, which evoke all that is noble and majestic, and such was the taste of the ancients. Raphael has the admirable ability to combine the two together."
– Antoine Coypel, On the Aesthetic of the Painter (1721), translated by Jonathan Murphy