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Der heilige Bruno im Gebet (Saint Bruno in Prayer) — Eustache Le Sueur (1616 - 1655), Maler*in
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Der heilige Bruno im Gebet (Saint Bruno in Prayer)

Eustache Le Sueur (1616 - 1655), Maler*in (1616 - 1655)
Date Ausführung: 1650
Collection Gemäldegalerie
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 9,088 px
License PD/CC0

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 18×24 in · image 17.9×24 in · archival margin · 379 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×32.2 in · archival margin · 282 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×42.9 in · archival margin · 212 dpi
40×60 in$480
sheet 40×60 in · image 40×53.6 in · archival margin · 169 dpi
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About this painting

Berlin's curators read this praying Carthusian as a still life. Under hard light the cell offers up its objects for inspection — the big books, the crucifix, the console table, and an hourglass. The saint himself is a narrow profile, thin as the space between two of them. Le Sueur could have painted ecstasy. He painted furniture, and let the sand run beside the cross. The comparison the museum reaches for is Stosskopf, a Strasbourg specialist in painted objects.

Sources: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 'Der heilige Bruno im Gebet', Ident. Nr. 466; read 2026-08-27.

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,088 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.