Vanitas
After Philippe de Champage. 1609.
Oil on canvas. 18 x 24 inches.
Collection of the artist, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Philippe de Champaigne was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art institution in the Kingdom of France in the eighteenth century.