Works included in this catalogue
Jeaurat after Le Brun Interview of Louis XIV & Phillip IV 1728 {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, cat.175]
Jeaurat after Le Brun Marriage of Louis XIV & Maria Theresa 1731 {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, cat.176]
These engravings document two of Le Brun’s tapestries, from a famous series on the life of Louis XIV, produced in 1670. Jeaurat was the son-in-law of Le Clerc, who had engraved scenes from the same set of tapestries 50 years earlier.
Refs.
For Jeuerat, see Bénézit 7, p.792 and AKL 77 (2013), p.469 (citing IFF Grav.XVIII, XII, 1973). References on Le Brun’s tapestry series are included in the individual entries noted above