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PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE (1602-1674)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAMPAIGNE (1602-1674)  , Belgian painter of the See also:French school, was See also:born at See also:Brussels of a poor See also:family . He was a See also:pupil of J . Fouquieres; and, going to See also:Paris in 1621, was employed by N . Du Chesne to paint along with See also:Nicholas Poussin in the See also:palace of the Luxembourg . His best See also:works are to be found at See also:Vincennes, and in the See also:church of the See also:Carmelites at Paris, where is his celebrated Crucifix, a See also:signal See also:perspective success, on one of the vaultings . After the See also:death of Du Chesne, Philippe became first painter to the See also:queen of See also:France, and ultimately See also:rector of the See also:Academy of Paris . As his See also:age advanced and his See also:health failed, he retired to See also:Port Royal, where he had a daughter cloistered as a See also:nun, of whom (along with See also:Catherine See also:Agnes See also:Arnauld) he painted a celebrated picture, now in the Louvre, highly remark-able for its solid unaffected truth . This, indeed, is the See also:general See also:character of his See also:work,—See also:grave reality, without See also:special See also:elevation or See also:depth of character, or See also:charm of warm or stately See also:colour . He produced an immense number of paintings, religious and other subjects as well as portraits, dispersed over various parts of France, and now over the galleries of See also:Europe . Philippe was a See also:good See also:man, indefatigable, See also:earnest and scrupulously religious . He died on the 12th of See also:August 1694 .

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