Keywords: Phillippe de Champaigne - Portrait of an Alderman of the City of Paris - Walters 37842.jpg This head of a man is painted on a piece of irregular canvas that has probably been cut from a larger painting probably one of Philippe de Champaigne's lost group portraits of the mayor and aldermen of Paris The sitter may be Sebastian Cramoisy an alderman of the city of Paris of whom other portraits exist The qualities of Champaigne as a portraitist come out in his observation of individual quirks such as the tensions around the sitter's left eye between 1640 1659 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 40 33 9 accession number 37 842 36606 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Portrait paintings by Philippe de Champaigne Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |