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Eustache Le Sueur (1616-1655), Meekness (Douceur or Mansuétude, 1650, French. Oil on panel. 100.7 x 67 cm. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (http://www.artic.edu); Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; photograph © 2002, The Art Institute of Chicago.

His surname was apt, alarmingly apt, and disarmingly prophetic. Eustache Le Sueur (1616-1655) lived and died, literally, "by the sweat of his brow." A contemporary of Nicolas Poussin and Charles Lebrun, and a pupil of Simon Vouet, his work lent added lustre to a country already in the midst of its Golden Age of Painting. Yet his life was remarkable, historians tell us, only for being unremarkable. Born in Paris, he died in Paris, and apparently never strayed far from it during his entire lifetime. When he was in his late 20s, he married one Genevieve Gousse and, during the remaining 11 years of his . . . [Full Text of this Article]