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| Simon Vouet Heavenly Charity ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Simon Vouet Portrait of Anne of Austria as Minerva ca. 1640-48 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Simon Vouet Abduction of Europa ca. 1640 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
"Though Vouet was productive and sought after by patrons until his health failed in 1648, the arrival of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) in Paris late in 1640 marked a change. Poussin was named First Painter to the King, and if his short sojourn was not an unqualified success, his severe classicism made a swift and profound impact on Parisian art. Next to Poussin's rigorous perspective, controlled planar composition, precise spatial organization, and intense and varied human expression, Vouet's decorative brilliance, facility, and mellow lyricism began to be seen as shallow and undisciplined. Vouet was, in effect, displaced, as the younger generation who set up Poussin as a new ideal fought to establish the Académie royale de peinture et sculpture and to articulate an art theory. Vouet opposed the founding of the Académie. Yet his career flourished uncompromised in the 1640s, and if the new generation declared Poussin the new paragon, Vouet's chromatic harmonies, tempered light, graceful figures, and decorative acumen remained deeply entrenched in Parisian visual culture."
– from the artist's biography in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Simon Vouet Ornamental Crouching Male Figures ca. 1640 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Simon Vouet Man with Raised Arm behind Parapet 1648 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Simon Vouet Saturn conquered by Amor, Venus, and Hope 1645-46 oil on canvas Musée du Berry, Bourges |
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| Simon Vouet Venus and Adonis ca. 1642 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Simon Vouet Holy Family ca. 1646 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Simon Vouet Virgin and Child with an Angel 1642 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Simon Vouet Virgin with Oak Leaves, known as Vierge Hesselin ca. 1640-48 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Simon Vouet St Catherine before 1649 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Simon Vouet Young Man with a Sword ca. 1645 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Simon Vouet Crucifixion before 1649 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Simon Vouet Entombment 1649 oil on canvas Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre |