Philippe de Champaigne, 1655 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) - fine art print

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In 1651 Colbert joined the household of Cardinal Mazarin, principal advisor to Queen Anne of Austria during the minority of Louis XIV (1638–1715), and one of the great collectors of the seventeenth century. Having recouped the cardinal’s fortune, Colbert entered the king’s service and, ten years after he sat for this portrait, was appointed minister of finance. He was instrumental in reforming the arts to serve the monarchy. In 1648, he and Charles Le Brun took charge of the Académie Royale and in 1666 founded the French Academy in Rome.

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) was made by Philippe de Champaigne in 1655. The more than 360 year old original measures the size: 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in (92,1 x 72,4 cm) and was made on the medium oil on canvas. Besides, this work of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are glad to state that the public domain artwork is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of The Wildenstein Foundation Inc., 1951. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of The Wildenstein Foundation Inc., 1951. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with an image ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The painter Philippe de Champaigne was a European artist, whose art style can mainly be classified as Baroque. The European artist lived for a total of 72 years - born in 1602 and passed away in 1674 in Paris.

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