Louis XIV at the Siege of Cambrai, Seen from the South-West (March 20-April 19, 1677). Artist: studio of Adam Frans van der Meulen (Flemish, Brussels 1632-1690 Paris). Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 37 9/16 in. (47 × 95.4 cm). Date: probably 1680s.Flemish by birth and training, Adam Frans van der Meulen, called to Paris in 1664, owes his reputation to the battle scenes commemorating Louis XIV's military exploits. As "Ordinary Painter of the King's Conquests", Van der Meulen joined the French army on its campaigns, painstakingly recording the subjugated towns on paper. On the basis of such drawings, Van der Meulen and his collaborators could later create paintings and designs for prints and tapestries which celebrated the expansion of France's territory. The Museum's drawings depicts a moment in the Franco-Dutch War (1672-9), during which the king attempted to consolidate France's northern frontiers: the siege of Cambrai, a city located in the present-day Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France but

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Louis XIV at the Siege of Cambrai, Seen from the South-West (March 20-April 19, 1677). Artist: studio of Adam Frans van der Meulen (Flemish, Brussels 1632-1690 Paris). Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 37 9/16 in. (47 × 95.4 cm). Date: probably 1680s.Flemish by birth and training, Adam Frans van der Meulen, called to Paris in 1664, owes his reputation to the battle scenes commemorating Louis XIV's military exploits. As "Ordinary Painter of the King's Conquests", Van der Meulen joined the French army on its campaigns, painstakingly recording the subjugated towns on paper. On the basis of such drawings, Van der Meulen and his collaborators could later create paintings and designs for prints and tapestries which celebrated the expansion of France's territory. The Museum's drawings depicts a moment in the Franco-Dutch War (1672-9), during which the king attempted to consolidate France's northern frontiers: the siege of Cambrai, a city located in the present-day Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France but

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