Art, literature & historyAdam Frans van der Meulen
1632–1690
Selected artwork
Siege of Valenciennes, 16 March 1677
1677–1690
musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes
Other names (123)
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Biography
Adam Frans van der Meulen or Adam-François van der Meulen (11 January 1632 – 15 October 1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who was particularly known for his scenes of military campaigns and conquests. Van der Meulen also painted portraits, hunting scenes, paintings of chateaux and landscapes. He created designs for prints and cartoons for tapestries.
He worked in the service of the French king Louis XIV for whom he painted his victories, his new possessions and portraits. He was instrumental in building the propagandistic image of the French king as the 'Sun King'. His battle scenes had an important influence on the development on the genre of military painting in France.
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Influenced by
- Peter Snayerseditorial inference
Evidence
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Adam Frans van der Meulen. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon — Versailles28 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre15 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts5 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art4 recorded works
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai3 recorded works
- Musée Carnavalet2 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly2 recorded works
- musée de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts — Paris2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille2 recorded works
- musée du temps — Besançon2 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado2 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum2 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Dijon1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Dole1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
- musée Lambinet — Versailles1 recorded work
- National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
- NGA primary biographical context: additional artist affiliations
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links