Philippe de Champaigne was a Brabançon-born French 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.
Self-portrait, Museum of Grenoble
Ex-Voto de 1662, Louvre
French poet Vincent Voiture depicted as Saint Louis, c. 1640–1648
The Annunciation, c. 1645, Wallace Collection
The Luxembourg Palace is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures since the establishment of the Sénat conservateur during the Consulate; as such, it has been home to the Senate of the Fifth Republic since its establishment in 1958.
Luxembourg Palace garden façade
The Luxembourg Palace was modeled after the Palazzo Pitti in Florence at the request of Marie de' Medici.
Ceiling of the Salle du Livre d'Or
Floor plan (1752) shows the large enclosed cour d'honneur and the long Rubens gallery in the right wing