Lebrun

Also known as: M. Lebrun / Monsieur Lebrun · Family: artists · Role: painter · First appears: Chapter 4

Life events

Aramis reveals Fouquet plans to surprise the king with a portrait dressed exactly like him.(Chapter4 · 📍 Vaux)
- With: Aramis Fouquet Louis XIV
- “M. Fouquet wishes to afford the king the surprise of finding his portrait on his arrival at Vaux”
Percerin supplies Lebrun with the five material patterns needed to copy the king’s dresses precisely.(Chapter4 · 📍 M. Percerin’s room)
- With: Percerin Aramis
- “Percerin, beaten from his last retreat, and duped, moreover, by the feigned good-nature of Aramis, cut out five patterns and handed them to the bishop of Vannes.”
Aramis arranges a surprise painting for Louis XIV, commissioning Lebrun for one hundred pistoles.(Chapter6 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Aramis Fouquet Louis XIV
- “Oh! a hundred pistoles you will give Lebrun.”

employer: Fouquet “M. Lebrun, one of M. Fouquet’s painters”
with Aramis (Aramis directs Lebrun's work on the king's costume patterns.) “M. Lebrun here is a man who draws most excellently.”
with Percerin (interaction) “I have seen his pictures, and observed that his dresses were highly elaborated. That is why I at once agreed to make him a costume”
with Louis XIV (Lebrun is to paint Louis XIV's portrait.) “M. Fouquet wishes to afford the king the surprise of finding his portrait on his arrival at Vaux”

with Fouquet (Fouquet is commissioning or paying Lebrun for the painting.) “Oh! a hundred pistoles you will give Lebrun.”

with Levau (They were gathered together as the architect, garden designer, and decorator of the palace.) “Fouquet, in scattering broadcast millions of money in the construction of this palace, had found a means of gathering, as the result of his generous profusion, three illustrious men together: Levau, the architect of the building; Lenotre, the designer of the gardens; and Lebrun, the decorator of the apartments.”
with Lenotre (They were gathered together as the architect, garden designer, and decorator of the palace.) “Fouquet, in scattering broadcast millions of money in the construction of this palace, had found a means of gathering, as the result of his generous profusion, three illustrious men together: Levau, the architect of the building; Lenotre, the designer of the gardens; and Lebrun, the decorator of the apartments.”

Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.