The Presentation of the Virgin
Philippe de Champaigne
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/2 x 16 5/16 in. (26.7 x 41.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.93
Tags
MenWomenVirgin Mary
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 ...