Charles Poerson (c. 1609 - 1667) was a French painter. He is also notable as the father and tutor of the painter

Charles-François Poerson Charles François Poerson (1653 – 2 September 1725) was a French painter. He was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1704 until his death. Biography Poerson studied under his own father Charles Poerson and under Noël Coypel. His no ...

Life

Born in

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, he studied under Simon Vouet and continued his style. Poerson received several religious commissions - he painted the

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for 1642, ''Saint Peter Preaching in Jerusalem'', and produced the cartoons for the Life of the Madonna for the interior of

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: ''The Annunciation'', now in the Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras and ''The Coronation of the Virgin'', now in the

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. He was also commissioned by

cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...

to paint the now-lost 'gallery of famous men' in his palace (now known as Palais Royal) - some works from that scheme survive, including ''The Election of Suger as Abbot of Saint-Denis'' and ''

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Arriving at Abbot Suger's Funeral'', both now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. After Philippe de Champaigne and

Jacques Stella Jacques Stella (1596 – 29 April 1657) was a French painter, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. Life Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but ...

, Poerson was the third painter to be taken on to produce a series of fourteen tapisteries for Notre-Dame, completed between 1638 and 1657 to fulfil

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and Richelieu's vow to the Madonna in 1636. He produced designed for eleven of them between 1650 and 1657 - ''The Annunciation'', ''The Visitation'', ''The Nativity'', ''The Adoration of the Magi'', ''The Purification of the Virgin (The Presentation of Christ in the Temple)'', ''The Flight into Egypt'', ''Christ Disputing with the Doctors of the Law'', ''The Marriage at Cana'', ''The Dormition of the Virgin'', ''The Assumption'' and ''The Coronation of the Virgin''. The finished tapisteries were acquired by Strasbourg Cathedral chapter in 1739 and now hang in its nave every year between Advent and Epiphany. He died in Paris.

Gallery

File:Charles Poërson - Rest on the Flight into Egypt - 1973.32 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tiff, ''Rest on the Flight into Egypt'' (circa 1640) File:Charles Poërson (Umkreis) - Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten - 1207 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg, ''Rest on the Flight into Egypt'' File:Poerson - Allégorie du mariage de Gaston d'Orléans.JPG, Allegory of the marriage of Gaston d'Orléans

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poerson, Charles 1609 births 1667 deaths 17th-century French painters People from Moselle (department)