himself; Philip of Champagne was delighted thereat; he lived, in retirement, in fidelity to his friends of Port-Royal, whose austere and vigorous lineaments he loved to trace, beginning with M.de St.Cyran, and ending with his own daughter, Sister Suzanne, who was restored to health by the prayers of Mother Agnes Arnauld.
[Illustration: Mignard 677] Lebrun was as able a courtier as he was a good painter.

The clever arrangement of his pictures, the richness and brilliancy of his talent, his faculty for applying art to industry, secured him with Louis XIV.

a sway which lasted as long as his life.

He was first painter to the king; he was director of the Gobelins and of the academy of painting.

"He let nothing be done by the other artists but according to his own designs and suggestions.