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Philippe de Champaigne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brussels 1602 – Paris 1674<\/p>\n

Benedict of Nursia miraculously Discovering a Hidden Fountain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inscribed lower left S. Conca<\/em> (recto) and aa<\/em> (verso).<\/p>\n

Pen and brown ink, grey wash.<\/p>\n

162 x 198 mm – 6 3\/8 x 7 7\/8 in<\/p>\n

Provenance<\/p>\n

London, Christie’s 7 July 2015, lot 50<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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fig.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This drawing is a preparatory study for the\u00a0Miraculous Fontain<\/em> (Fig. 1; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Inv. 29; see Bernard Dorival,\u00a0Philippe de Champaigne 1602 – 1674<\/em>, Paris, 1976, II, n\u00b0 103 and Dominique Br\u00eame, \u00c0 l\u2019\u00e9cole de Philippe de Champaigne<\/em>, exposition au mus\u00e9e d\u2019\u00c9vreux du 18 novembre 2007 au 17 f\u00e9vrier 2008, Somogy \u00e9ditions, 2007, p. 185, fig. 81)), a painting which was formerly part of a series of twelve scenes devoted to the\u00a0Life of Saint Benedict\u00a0<\/em>executed for Queen Anne of Austria’s chamber in her apartment of the Val-de-Gr\u00e2ce Royal abbey around 1655-56 by Philippe de Champaigne, Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattemontagne. This series of paintings was divided during the French Revolution; eleven of them are in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Hermitage in St Petersburg, Mus\u00e9e Carnavalet in Paris, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts in Menton, and in a private collection.<\/p>\n

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A renowned painter and religious man, Philippe de Champaigne attracted Louis XIII\u2019s mother Marie de Medicis’ attention in 1628 and, as a painter of the royal family, he was asked to participate in the Luxembourg Palace decoration. In 1655-56, it is for Anne of Austria, Louis XIII\u2019s wife, that he painted the\u00a0Life of Saint Benedict<\/em>\u00a0series. This drawing is the only surviving\u00a0 presentation drawing related to this series. However, a few figure studies, drawn with black and white chalks and attributed to Champaigne’s partners, are related to this series (see Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lano\u00eb,\u00a0Trois ma\u00eetres du dessin, Philippe de Champaigne Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, Nicolas de Plattemontagne<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, Magny-les-Hameaux, Mus\u00e9e National de Port-Royal des Champs from 25 March to 29 June 2009).<\/p>\n

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The subject illustrates one of Saint Benedict’s miracles, the finding of a source near a monastery, drawn from the second book of Saint Gregory the Great\u2019s Dialogues<\/em> (592) and Jacques de Voragine\u2019s Golden Legend<\/em> (1261 \u2013 1266). \u00a0Three of the monasteries founded by Saint Benedict had poor water supply. One night, he went up to the mountain with a young child and, after praying for a long time, they found a water source.<\/p>\n

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The right-hand side of the painted composition is quite similar to the drawing\u2019s, featuring the same group of three bewildered monks and the same amphorae on the foreground, whereas the left-hand side of the composition was radically transformed. Instead of being shown in the action of digging, Saint Benedict is now represented kneeling in prayer. Champaigne has also added the young boy wearing the Benedictine habit and piling up three stones near the source for the monks to be able to trace its location.<\/p>\n

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The delineation of the figures with the pen and brown ink and the suggesting of the habits pleats by skillfully applied grey wash is characteristic of Philippe de Champaigne\u2019s composition drawings, such as The Presentation of the Virgin to the temple<\/em> (New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. 2008.93<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Condition report: Laid down on a thick paper. Some slight foxing, especially in the upper right corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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