Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 — 12 August 1674) was a Baroque era painter of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. He moved to Paris in 1621, where he worked with Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg under the direction of Nicolas Duchesne, whose daughter he married.
After the death of his protector Duchesne, Champaigne worked for the Queen Mother, Marie de Medicis, and for Richelieu, for whom he decorated the cardinal’s palace, the Dome of the Sorbonne church and other buildings. He was a founding member of the Académie Royale de Peinture in 1648.
Later in his life (1640), he came under the influence of Jansenism. After his paralysed daughter was miraculously cured at the nunnery of Port-Royal, he painted the celebrated but untypical picture Ex-Voto (1662), now in the Louvre, which represents the artist’s daughter with Mother-Superior Cathérine-Agnès Arnauld.
Champaigne produced a very large number of paintings, mainly religious works and portraits. Influenced by Rubens at the beginning of his career, his style later became more austere.
He died in Paris.
001 — The Annunciation
c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 334 x 214 cm
Wallace Collection, London
002 — Annunciation
c. 1644
Oil on canvas, 74,3 x 54,6 cm
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
003 — The Échevins of the City of Paris
1648
Oil on canvas, 200 x 271 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
004 — Ex Voto
1662
Oil on canvas, 165 x 229 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
005 — Portrait of Henri Groulart
1654
Oil on canvas, 92,5 x 75,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
006 — The Vow of Louis XIII
1637
Oil on canvas, 342 x 267 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen
007 — King Louis XIII
1655
Oil on canvas, 108 x 86 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
008 — The Penitent Magdalen
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Oil on canvas, 115,5 x 87 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
009 — The Marriage of the Virgin
c. 1644
Oil on panel, 71,5 x 143,5 cm
Wallace Collection, London
010 — The Miracles of the Penitent St Mary
1656
Oil on canvas, 219 x 336 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
011 — Portrait of Omer Talon
1649
Oil on canvas, 225 x 161,6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
012 — Portrait of Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus
1643
Oil on canvas, 73,2 x 59,4 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
013 — Portrait of a Man
1650
Oil on canvas, 91 x 72 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
014 — Portrait of Robert Arnauld d’Andilly
1667
Oil on canvas, 78 x 64 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
015 — The Presentation of the Temple
1648
Oil on canvas, 257 x 197 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
016 — Cardinal Richelieu
c. 1637
OiI on canvas, 260 x 178 cm
National Gallery, London
017 — Triple Portrait of Richelieu
c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 58 x 72 cm
National Gallery, London
018 — Cardinal Richelieu
c. 1639
Oil on canvas, 222 x 155 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
019 — The Supper at Emmaus
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Oil on canvas, 217 x 226 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
020 — Still-Life with a Skull
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Oil on panel, 28 x 37 cm
Musée de Tessé, Le Mans