CHAMPAIGNE, PHILIPPE DE (1602-1674)

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CHAMPAIGNE, PHILIPPE DE (1602-1674) , Belgian painter of the French school, was born at Brussels of a poor family. He was a pupil of J. Fouquieres; and, going to Paris in 1621, was employed by N. Du Chesne to paint along with Nicholas Poussin in the palace of the Luxembourg. His best works are to be found at Vincennes, and in the

church

of the Carmelites at Paris, where is his celebrated Crucifix, a

signal

SIGNAL

perspective success, on one of the vaultings. After the death of Du Chesne, Philippe became first painter to the queen of France, and ultimately

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, "
rule
- RULE
")

of the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Paris. As his age advanced and his

health

HEALTH

failed, he retired to Port Royal, where he had a daughter cloistered as a nun, of whom (along with Catherine Agnes Arnauld) he painted a celebrated picture, now in the Louvre, highly remark-able for its solid unaffected truth. This, indeed, is the general character of his

work

WORK

,grave reality, without

special

SPECIAL

elevation

ELEVATION

or depth of character, or charm of warm or stately 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 Europe. Philippe was a good man, indefatigable,

earnest

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

and scrupulously religious. He died on the 12th of August 1694.

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