A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools / Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

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1422. THE HOLY FAMILY.

Eustache Le Sueur (French: 1616-1655)

Le Sueur, sometimes styled "the French Raphael," was the son of a wood-carver at Paris, and became one of the original members of the French Academy. His works, in spite of the early age at which he died, are very numerous. He was assisted in the production of them by three brothers and his brothers-in-law. Several of his most important pictures are to be seen at the Louvre.

This little picture is a good example of the painter's characteristics—with its somewhat crude colour, but considerable gracefulness, especially in the figure of the Virgin.