"Christ Among the Doctors" is a religious painting that was completed in 1623 by Claude Vignon (May 1593—May 1670), a French painter, printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres. Now housed at the Museum of Grenoble (Musée de Grenoble), a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in Grenoble, France, the painting is said to depict a theme that is borrowed from the Gospel of Saint Luke and tells the story of the escape of Jesus, then age twelve. He was escaping the supervision of his parents: "After three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, listening to them and questioning them, and all those who heard him were amazed at his intelligence and his answers."

This artwork is considered to have a whole play of gestures and glances which are woven between the protagonists, staging a story that is in play. The life-size characters, the violent contrasts of shadow and light, the horizontal composition, seem to draw their source from paintings done by other artists such as Caravaggio, while the sensual touch and the rich fabrics are said to be a tribute to Venetian paintings.

Vignon received his initial training in France before going to Italy in 1610. At that time, France was barely recovering from the Wars of Religion. It could not offer artists either large royal or ecclesiastical construction sites or private commissions. Italy represented the only real artistic center capable of providing true patron situations.

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