April 10, 2007 through June 30, 2008
At The Fogg Art Museum (more about the Fogg)

This reinstallation of the 17th-century French painting and sculpture gallery presents a recently reattributed self-portrait by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674). Although modest in scale and composition, the painting is a powerful visual statement of artistic self-representation and relates closely to his famous 1668 self-portrait, now lost. Also exhibited are other well-known examples of 17th-century portraiture from the permanent collection, namely Nicolas Régnier's Self-Portrait with an Easel and Pierre Mignard's Duchess of Aiguillon, and two examples of Champaigne's religious works, a pendant pair representing Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary.

Organized by Yao-Fen You, Theodore Rousseau Post-Doctoral Fellow in European Paintings.