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Philippe de champagne paintings
Philippe de Champaigne
French painter (1602–1674)
Philippe de Champaigne (French pronunciation:[ʃɑ̃paɲ]; 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.
Life and work
Born of a poor family in Brussels (Duchy of Brabant, Southern Netherlands), during the reign of the Archduke Albert and Isabella, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquier.
In 1621 he moved to Paris, where he worked with Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg under the direction of Nicolas Duchesne, whose daughter he would eventually marry. According to Houbraken, Duchesne was angry at Champaigne for becoming more popular than he was at court, and so Champaigne returned to Brussels to live with his brother.
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