In the 1640s, Jacques Tubeuf, President of the Chambres des Comptes, the French Courts of Accounts, commissioned Philippe de Champaigne to decorate his private chapel in the Church of the Oratory in Paris. Tubeuf chose the theme of the Nativity, the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a very popular theme in Western art, and Champaigne decided to bring some originality to it...
