Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674) was a Brabant-born French Baroque painter. Born in Brussels, he moved to Paris in 1621, where he became a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He trained with Jacques Fouquières and established himself as a significant figure in French art.
Champaigne served as a leading French court painter of portraits and religious subjects, particularly active in the 1630s and 1640s. His work, while within the Baroque idiom, often displayed a classicist austerity and realism, evident in pieces such as Portrait of Louis XIII (c. 1644) and The Body of Christ in the Sepulchre (1654). He also executed decorative commissions and created austere paintings for the Church, aligning with Jansenist principles.
