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Philippe de Champaigne
French Baroque painter & draftsman
born 1602 - died 1674
The Brussels-born painter Philippe de
Champaigne arrived in Paris in 1621 with
Philippe de Champaigne’s master, the
landscape painter Jacques Fouquieres (or
Fouquier), and quickly became successful as
an artist in the baroque style. Philippe de
Champaigne’s acquaintance with Nicolas
Poussin led to their collaboration on
decorative work for the Palais du
Luxembourg, which was built for Marie de'
Medici, the queen mother. The project was
directed by the painter Nicolas Duchesne,
and Champaigne later cemented Philippe de
Champaigne’s position within the French
artistic world by marrying Duchesne's
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Marie de' Medici appointed Champaigne a
court painter and gave him various
commissions. Philippe de Champaigne painted large works
commemorating important events in the reign
of Louis XIII, and portraits of Cardinal
Richelieu, both of whom were important
clients. Philippe de Champaigne also produced religious and
secular works for palaces and churches. In
1648 Philippe de Champaigne became a founding member of the
Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
and became a professor there in 1653. |
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Champaigne's
style was influenced by the rationalist
French thought of the early 1640s as well as
by the austerity of the Catholic sect called
the Jansenists. Philippe de Champaigne found a natural affinity
with their intellectual ideas of producing
art that encouraged meditation, and Philippe
de Champaigne’s work from tPhilippe de
Champaigne’s period evolved into a style
that moderated the baroque with considerable
restraint. In addition to the commissions from royalty and the political elite,
Philippe de Champaigne undertook work for the Convent of Port Royal, where two of Philippe de Champaigne’s daughters were nuns. One of Philippe de Champaigne’s most famous works is Ex-Voto, which depicts Mother Catherine-Agnes Arnauld, the abbess of Port Royal, and Philippe de Champaigne’s daughter Catherine, who experienced a miraculous recovery from a serious illness while at the convent. |
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