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Saving a Rare Masterwork at Vaux-le-Vicomte

Presented by Hennessy Paradis Impérial

In Episode Two of Sotheby’s original series, Treasures from Vaux-le-Vicomte Presented by Hennessy Paradis Imperial, witness the extraordinary effort to save a masterpiece by Charles Le Brun, the famed painter that Louis XIV declared “the greatest French artist of all time.”

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