# Meekness

**Eustache Le Sueur** (French, 1616–1655)  
1650  
Oil on panel  
100.7 × 67 cm (39 7/8 × 26 3/8 in.); Framed: 111.8 × 78.2 × 7.7 cm (44 × 30 3/4 × 3 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.233. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47159).

## About this work

Eustache Le Sueur painted this in 1650, aged 34. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on panel.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil on panel.** Oil paint on prepared wooden boards, usually oak in the north and poplar in Italy. The rigid, smooth surface suits fine detail and thin, glowing glazes.
- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Eustache Le Sueur](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/eustache-le-sueur)

French, 1616–1655

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- The artist was 34
- Real size: about 39 × 26 in (100 × 67 cm). The 30 × 40 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: woman, animals, decoration, gold (color), religion, religious, 17th Century
- Colour: ochre
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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