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The Flemish master Philippe de Champaigne pursued a successful career in France, where he produced altarpieces, devotional images, and portraits, served as first painter to the queen, and was a founding member of the French Academy. The emotional restraint typical of the French classical tradition informs Champaigne’s two devotional pictures: The Virgin Mary, at right (1978.546), and Saint ...
According to the Gospel of Matthew, an angel appears to the Virgin Mary’s husband, Joseph, in a dream. Champaigne shows the angel gesturing towards both heaven and the Virgin Mary, confirming that Christ has been conceived through the Holy Ghost. Kneeling in front of an open Bible, Mary glances towards the angel, her arms crossed over her chest.
Cardinal de Richelieu. Philippe de Champaigne. In this full-length portrait, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585–1642) wears the robe and skull cap of a cardinal. This position had been granted to him in 1622. His left hand lifts the robe to reveal a delicate layer of lace, also visible on his sleeves, beneath the great expanse of...
May 26, 1999 · Philippe de Champaigne (born May 26, 1602, Brussels, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]—died August 12, 1674, Paris, France) was a Flemish-born Baroque painter and teacher of the French school who is noted for his restrained and penetrating portraits and his religious paintings. Champaigne was trained in Brussels by Jacques Fouquier and ...
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Philippe de Champaigne. Champaigne was the leading French portrait painter of the reign of Louis XIII. He was employed by the king and by Cardinal Richelieu, for whom he executed the series of portraits for which he is chiefly remembered. Champaigne was also a prolific painter of altarpieces and religious paintings, such as 'The Dream of Saint ...
Philippe de Champaigne (French pronunciation:; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French [1] Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.He was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art institution in the Kingdom of France in the eighteenth century.
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