Eustache Le Sueur

Eustache Le Sueur
Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, c. 1640–1645, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 1617[citation needed] – 30 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.