1602-1674
Philippe de Champaigne Locations
His artistic style was varied: far from being limited to the realism traditionally associated with Flemish painters, it developed from late Mannerism to the powerful lyricism of the Baroque. It was influenced as much by Rubens as by Vouet, culminating in an aesthetic vision of the world and of humanity that was based on an analytic view of appearances and on psychological truth. He was perhaps the greatest portrait painter of 17th-century France. At the same time he was one of the principal instigators of the Classical tendency and a founder-member of the Acadmie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. His growing commitment to the Jansenist religious movement (see JANSENISM) and the severe plainness of the works that it inspired has led to his being sometimes considered to typify Jansenist thinking, with its iconoclastic impulse, in spite of the opposing evidence of his other paintings. He should be seen as an example of the successful integration of foreign elements into French culture and as the representative of the most intellectual current of French painting.
Canvas 86 1/4 x 132 1/4''(219 x 336 cm)Painted in 1656 for the apartment of Anne of Austria in the Val-de-Grace Paris Seized in the Revolution INV
Canvas 86 1/4 x 132 1/4''(219 x 336 cm)Painted in 1656 for the apartment of Anne of Austria in the Val-de-Grace Paris Seized in the Revolution INV
Canvas,87 1/2 x 100 1/2''(222 x 255 cm)Collection of the Duc de Penthievre at the Hotel de Toulouse,Paris;seized in the Revolution INV
Canvas,87 1/2 x 100 1/2''(222 x 255 cm)Collection of the Duc de Penthievre at the Hotel de Toulouse,Paris;seized in the Revolution INV
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La Petite Cene (The Last Supper) (san 05)
La Petite Cene (The Last Supper) (san 05)
Painting ID:: 20951
Canvas 31 1/2 x 58 1/2''(80 x 149 cm)Collection of Louis XVI;acquired by the Louvre in 1777 INV 1125 (MN)
Canvas 31 1/2 x 58 1/2''(80 x 149 cm)Collection of Louis XVI;acquired by the Louvre in 1777 INV 1125 (MN)
1602-1674
Philippe de Champaigne Locations
His artistic style was varied: far from being limited to the realism traditionally associated with Flemish painters, it developed from late Mannerism to the powerful lyricism of the Baroque. It was influenced as much by Rubens as by Vouet, culminating in an aesthetic vision of the world and of humanity that was based on an analytic view of appearances and on psychological truth. He was perhaps the greatest portrait painter of 17th-century France. At the same time he was one of the principal instigators of the Classical tendency and a founder-member of the Acadmie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. His growing commitment to the Jansenist religious movement (see JANSENISM) and the severe plainness of the works that it inspired has led to his being sometimes considered to typify Jansenist thinking, with its iconoclastic impulse, in spite of the opposing evidence of his other paintings. He should be seen as an example of the successful integration of foreign elements into French culture and as the representative of the most intellectual current of French painting.