Study of a Male Nude (verso)
Simon Vouet · 1630
Simon Vouet
French · 1590–1649
Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."
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Study of a Male Nude (verso)
Simon Vouet · 1630
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Study for the figures of Venus and Cupid (recto)
Simon Vouet · 1630
Getty Center
The Presentation in the Temple
Simon Vouet · 1640
Saint Jerome and the Angel
Simon Vouet
National Gallery of Art
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The Presentation in the Temple
Simon Vouet · 1640
Presentation of Christ in the Temple is an oil painting on canvas executed c. 1640 to 1641 by the French artist Simon Vouet. The painting, which depicts the Biblical story of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, was commissioned from Vouet by Cardinal Richelieu for the Jesuit church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis.
Saint Jerome and the Angel
Simon Vouet
National Gallery of Art
Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.
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