Saint Augustine
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He holds his own heart, and it is burning. The light he looks toward is a word: VERITAS, alight in the corner. The quill is still in his hand; a bishop's mitre and books lie at his feet. The flaming heart is his because of a line he wrote about himself: "Thou hadst pierced our heart with Thy charity."
Champaigne painted it around 1645, when Jansen's Augustinus had France at war over Augustine on grace. In those very years he discovered Port-Royal's rigorist Jansenism; his daughter took the veil there. Augustine, painted by the movement that claimed him.
Sources: description, date, dimensions, provenance · Augustine, Confessions IX.2 · Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, "Étude d'une œuvre : Philippe de Champaigne, Le Christ et la Samaritaine", museum dossier, 2013 (rev. 2019), drawing on the 1995 plaquette by Isabelle Molard, Michel Grujard and Alain Tapié · Musée du Louvre, collection record for Philippe de Champaigne, "La mère Catherine-Agnès Arnauld (1593–1671) et la sœur Catherine de Sainte Suzanne Champaigne (1636–1686), fille de l'artiste", 1662, INV 1138; MR 611 · Manuel del Campo, "Port-Royal, more than a French stronghold of Jansenism", Cambridge University Library, Languages across Borders blog, 21 January 2021
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.