Louis XIV Arriving in the Camp in front of Maastricht

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Van Meulen accompanied Louis XIV on his military campaigns, during which he made sketches from life and then used to elaborate compositions in his studio. This canvas relates the taking of the town of Maastricht on 30 June 1673. It is one of a series of fourteen paintings the artist executed for the central pavilion of the chteau of Marly.

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Louis XIV Arriving in the Camp in front of Maastricht

About the Artist

Adam Frans van der Meulen

1632 – 1690

Flemish painter and tapestry designer. He moved to Paris in 1664, became an assistant to Le Brun and was made one of Louis XIV court painters, specializing in military scenes. He accompanied the king on his campaigns, and his paintings and designs for Gobelins tapestries are accurate historical documents of the battles which they represent. His work of this type is well represented in Versailles. He also made much less grandiose pictures of such subjects as hunting parties and landscapes.

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