Mother Catherine-Agnes Arnauld and Sister Cathérine (Ex Voto de 1662)
painting by Champaigne
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- In Philippe de Champaigne
…of his later period is Mother Catherine-Agnes Arnauld and Sister Cathérine (Ex Voto de 1662), which was painted after the miraculous curing of his daughter, a nun at the Jansenist convent of Port Royal. Champaigne’s academic art theory emphasized drawing and was possibly the originator of the drawing-versus-colour controversy that…
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