- Artist
- Charles Le Brun
- Year
- ca. 1660
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 110 1/4 x 129 1/8 in. (280 x 328 cm)
Everhard Jabach, the German-born banker and art collector, sits at the heart of this grand family portrait with his wife and children gathered around him in rich silks and lace. Charles Le Brun, first painter to Louis XIV, composed the scene like a theatrical set piece around 1660, balancing the warm light on the faces with the dark hangings behind. It is a monument to bourgeois success painted with the full pomp of the French Baroque.