Eustache Le Sueur painted many pictures for churches and convents, among the most important being his famous series of 22 paintings of the Life of St. Bruno, executed in the cloister of the Chartreux. The blind arcades along the cloister wall were endowid with 22 panels of hagiographic scenes, each accompanied by an explanatory cartouche. In this calmly dignified series (now in the Louvre), the whiteness of the monastic robes provided the basis foe a deliberately simplified, purified representation of great meditative value.

These canvases have more personal character than anything else Le Sueur produced, and much of their original beauty survives in spite of injuries and restorations and removal from the wall to canvas.

St Bruno of Cologne (1030-1101) went to great extremes in rejecting the pleasures of this world by founding a monastery in the Chartreuse Mountains, a home for the Carthusian Order.

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	Saint Bruno Is Taken to Heaven 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	656*1000 True Color 100 Kb
	St Bruno's Dream 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	649*1000 True Color 102 Kb
	Death of Raymond Diocrès 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	651*1000 True Color 104 Kb
	Death of St Bruno 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	659*1000 True Color 106 Kb
	Raymond Diocrès Announcing his Damnation after his Death 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	669*1000 True Color 107 Kb
	St Bruno at the Feet of Pope Urban II 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	657*1000 True Color 100 Kb
	St Bruno Attending the Sermon of Raymond Diocrès 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	653*1000 True Color 105 Kb
	St Bruno Ordains Several Monks 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	654*1000 True Color 102 Kb
	St Bruno at Prayer 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	651*1000 True Color 94 Kb
	St Bruno Commits his Disciples to Leaving the World 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	654*1000 True Color 108 Kb
	St Bruno Teaching Theology in the Schools of Reims 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	653*1000 True Color 98 Kb
	St Bruno Examines the Map of the Charterhouse of Rome 1645-48 Oil on wood, 162 x 114 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	713*1000 True Color 104 Kb
	St Bruno Has the Monastery Built 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	653*1000 True Color 108 Kb
	St Bruno Takes Holy Monastic Orders 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	653*1000 True Color 111 Kb
	St Bruno Receives a Message from the Pope 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	660*1000 True Color 106 Kb
	St Bruno Refuses the See of Reggio 1645-48 Oil on canvas, 193 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	657*1000 True Color 109 Kb