Portrait of Charlotte Duchesne
ca. 1628
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk
Dimensions
8 11/16 x 7 11/16 in. (22 x 19.6 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Gifts in memory of Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic, and Howard J. Barnet; and The Schiff Foundation, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. and Harry Liebovitz Gifts, 1994
Accession Number
1994.7
Tags
About the Artist
Philippe de Champaigne · 1602–1674
He was known as one of the greatest portrait painters of 17th-century France. His art was based in an analytical study of appearances and on psychological truth. He was also one of the principal instigators of the Classical tendency and a founder-member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He developed an interest in Jansenist thinking, typified by a severe plainness of style. His ...