Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne ( born May 26, 1602 Brussels; † August 12, 1674 in Paris) was a born in Brabant painter of the French Baroque.
Life
The artist came from a poor family in Brussels and was first a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. Champaigne came in 1621 to Paris, where he worked for Nicolas Duchesne along with Nicolas Poussin in the Palais du Luxembourg, whose daughter he married. Distributed through its jealousy, he went back to Brussels in 1627, but was immediately recalled by the Queen Mother Marie de Medici to work on the decoration of the Palais de Luxembourg. They appointed him in place of the recently deceased Duchesne for their first court painter. Also for Cardinal Richelieu, he was active (portraits, decoration of the palace Cardinal, dome of the church of the Sorbonne, and others).
Champaigne was built in 1648 founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, then professor and finally Rector same. When Charles Lebrun Champaigne darkened fame, this moved back to Port Royal des Champs, where he in 1662 at the recovery of his daughter, a nun of the convent, from a serious illness his famous painting ex voto de 1662 created. It shows the Superior Agnès Arnauld, abbess of the nunnery, and sister Catherine ( his daughter ) in prayer. Today it is owned by the Louvre.
He died on August 12, 1674 in Paris.
Assessment
Champaigne combines classically structured compositions with Flemish sense of realism and materiality, but it is the rigor in construction, often cool colors and the psychologically accurate reproduction of portraits all in the service of a deep, well -conceived ethical religiosity. His achievements are underestimated to date from the wider public.
Works (selection)
- Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, about 1640, oil on canvas, 248 × 168 cm. Paris, Chancellery of the Universités de Paris, Inv. 77
Students (selection)
- Jacques Alix (around 1622-1672 )
- Claude de Champaigne
- Henri de Champaigne (1609 - after 1656)
- Juste d' Egmont (1601-1674)
- Jean Morin (around 1590-1650 )
- Jean Mosnier (1600-1656)
- Robert Nanteuil (around 1620-1678 )