Joseph Christophe, the brother of Claude Christophe, was born at

Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...

in 1662. In 1696 he painted as a "mai" for Notre-Dame the ''Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes''. He was received into the

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in 1702, and in 1724 became painter to the Archduke Leopold, for whom he executed many portraits. At

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there is by him ''The Baptism of Dauphin, son of Louis XIV''. He died in Paris in 1748.

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