The 2016 summer exhibition at Louvre -Lens celebrates the painter Charles Le Brun (1619–1690). Much like Delacroix for Romanticism, or Monet for Impressionism, Le Brun incarnates the art of an era: the Grand Siècle. The son of a modest tombstone sculptor, he was the first painter to Louis XIV for nearly thirty years. We have him to thank, notably, for the decoration of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. He also directed the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and the Royal Manufactory of tapestry for Les Gobelins.