Ecole de Adam Frans van der MEULEN (Bruxelles 1632 - Paris 1690) The Surrender of Marsal on September 1, 1663. (Episode of the First Conquest of Louis XIV) Gouache. Marouflé on panel. On the back of the support cardboard an old annotation in pen and brown ink Reddition of Marsal / Van der Meulen. 29,5 x 45,5 cm. The original model by Charles Le Brun (1619 - 1690) elaborated from a study of the landscape and the city by A. F. van der Meulen (1632 - 1690) was used as a model for the tapestry of basse lisse in wool, silk and gold thread from the Manufacture des Gobelins (1677), La réduction de Marsal par Louis XIV (Paris, Mobilier National). The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Musée du Mans have an early copy of the composition by Adam - Frans van der Meulen, to whom some repetitions of the Reddition, or Reduction of Marsal, as it was called at the time, are attributed (see Elisabeth Foucart - Walter, Le Mans, Musée de Tessé. Peintures françaises du XVIIe siècle, n° 74, p.95 - RMN 1982).