Charles Poërson (c. 1609 - 1667)

• Was a French painter.

• Born in Vic-sur-Seille and a cousin of fellow painter Charles-Antoine Hérault.

• He studied under Simon Vouet and continued his style.

• Poerson received several religious commissions.

• He was also commissioned by cardinal Richelieu to paint the now-lost 'gallery of famous men' in his palace (now known as Palais Royal).

• After Philippe de Champaigne and Jacques Stella, Poerson was the third painter to be taken on to produce a series of fourteen tapestries for Notre-Dame, completed between 1638 and 1657 to fulfil Louis XIII and Richelieu's vow to the Madonna in 1636.

• He produced designed for eleven of them between 1650 and 1657.

• The finished tapestries were acquired by Strasbourg Cathedral chapter in 1739 and now hang in its nave every year between Advent and Epiphany.

• He died in Paris.

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