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| Simon Vouet Self-portrait ca. 1626-27 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Simon Vouet Portrait of Prince Marcantonio Doria 1621 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Simon Vouet Fortune Teller 1617 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Simon Vouet Fortune Teller ca. 1620 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada |
"Simon Vouet was born in 1590 in Paris, the son of the minor painter Laurent Vouet. Evidently precocious, at age fourteen he was sent to England to execute a portrait of a "Lady of quality." In 1611 he traveled in the retinue of the French ambassador to Constantinople to make a portrait of an unknown gentleman. The next year he was in Venice, and in 1614, supported by a pension from Louis XIII, he began a fourteen-year sojourn in Rome. Italy offered the young Vouet, already distinguished as a portraitist, a wealth of artistic stimulation as well as the sophisticated patronage of the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo and the noble Orsini, Sacchetti, Giustiniani, Barberini, and Doria families. Vouet absorbed the lessons of the most recent developments in Italian painting, notably by Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio."
– from the artist's biography in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Simon Vouet Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1615-20 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Simon Vouet Daedalus and Icarus ca. 1625 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Simon Vouet Study of Angels for Altarpiece in St Peter's Basilica, Rome 1625 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Simon Vouet Study of Angels for Altarpiece in St Peter's Basilica, Rome 1625 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Simon Vouet Allegory of Peace ca. 1627 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Simon Vouet Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1620-21 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Simon Vouet Time defeated by Hope, Love, and Beauty 1627 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Simon Vouet St Cecilia ca. 1625-27 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Simon Vouet St Jerome and Angel ca. 1622-25 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Simon Vouet Angels with Instruments of the Passion 1625 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon |