biography
| name: |
Champaigne, Philippe de
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pronunciation:
[shãpen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1602–74)
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| biography:
| Painter of portraits and religious subjects, born in Brussels, Belgium. He studied in Brussels, then went to Paris (1621), where he assisted with decorations for the Luxembourg palace with Nicholas Poussin and in 1628 was appointed a portrait painter to Marie de Médicis, receiving commissions from Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. His greatest portraits, more austere in style, were produced after his association with the Jansenists at Port-Royal, where his daughter was a nun. A lifelong friend of Poussin, he also painted portraits of lawyers, merchants, and sheriffs. His works include ‘Portrait of an Unknown Man’ (1650, Louvre) and ‘Ex Voto’ (1662, Louvre). |
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