View of Jerusalem with the Temple of Solomon

View of Jerusalem with the Temple of Solomon by Philippe de Champaigne

Medium

Red chalk on two attached sheets of off-white laid paper

Dimensions

13 1/16 x 23 3/4 in. (33.1 x 60.3 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, 2002 Benefit Fund and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2004

Accession Number

2004.138

Tags

Temples

About the Artist

Philippe de Champaigne · 16021674

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 ...

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