# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 72 cm ## Commentary Midway through his career, Champaigne satisfied the needs of middle-class patrons. In works such as this Portrait of a MAn in the Louvre, he recorded his sitters faithfully and well. It is easy to see Champaigne as a painter who epitomized French art at the time, but although there is a superficial 'classical',restraint, there are no classical overtones. Champaigne's austerity in fact predated that of Poussin, and its source was the portrait painting of the fifteenth-century Netherlandish masters. Champaigne did not hesitate to use the conventions of almost two hundred years before, simply because they were successful ones. The convention of the man behind a ledge, typical of Van Eyck and the generation including Memling and Bouts that came after him, is made freer by Champaigne, who permitted a greater degree of realism in his work: for instance moisture is visible on the slightly open lips of the sitter. The sitter of this portrait is unidentified. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Annunciation]() - [Cardinal Richelieu]() - [Cardinal Richelieu]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Ex Voto]() - [King Louis XIII]() - [Louis XIII Crowned by Victory \(Siege of La Rochelle, 1628\)]() - [Moses with the Ten Commandments]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus]() - [Portrait of Henri Groulart]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()