Claude Lefèbvre
(1632 - 1675)

Claude Lefèbvre was a French painter and engraver.
In 1654 he studied with Eustache Le Sueur in Paris, and after Le Sueur's death in 1655, with Charles Le Brun. Under Le Brun he probably assisted in the preparation of cartoons (untraced) for the tapestry series History of the King (Château of Versailles) and painted a Nativity (untraced) for Louis XIV, but Le Brun found Lefèbvre's compositions poor and encouraged him to specialize in portraiture.
Lefèbvre soon established himself as a leading portrait artist, and in 1663, at the age of thirty, he was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture in anticipation of his portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Château of Versailles). Lefèbvre spent several years creating the portrait and finally presented it on 30 October 1666. He was an assistant professor at the Académie beginning in 1664. Among his students were François de Troy and Jean Cotelle, le jeune.


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The Artistes Eldest Daughter Combing her Little Brother's Hair
17th Century
Oil on canvas
102 × 82.5  cm.
Rmn-Grand Palais, Paris, France
https://musee-magnin.fr/en/collection/objet/artists-eldest-daughter-combing-her-little-brothers-hair