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Simon Vouet(Paris 1590-1649)Portrait of a young man, bust-length, in a ruff, presumably a portrait of the artist
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Simon Vouet (Paris 1590-1649)
Portrait of a young man, bust-length, in a ruff, presumably a portrait of the artist
oil on canvas
56.1 x 43.8cm (22 1/16 x 17 1/4in).
together with an engraving of Simon Vouet by Ottavio Leoni, unframed (2)
oil on canvas
56.1 x 43.8cm (22 1/16 x 17 1/4in).
together with an engraving of Simon Vouet by Ottavio Leoni, unframed (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Kleinberger & Co, New York, from whom acquired in 1960
Collection of Mr and Mrs Joseph McMicking, San Francisco and by descent
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition, Héritage de France French Painting 1610-1760,: Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 6 October-6 November 1961; Quebec, Le Musée de la province de Québec, 16 November-16 December 1961; Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada, 4 January-4 February 1962; and Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 16 February-18 March 1962, cat. no. 81
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, on loan, August 1979- spring 1980
Literature
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford, 1979, vol. I, p. 211, cat. no. 731, vol. II, ill.
Although perhaps more immediately associated today with religious and allegorical paintings, Simon Vouet painted many portraits during his lifetime starting at the early age of 14 when he is said to have travelled to England to paint an English sitter, and later he drew many pastel portraits of Louis XIII and his court while First Painter to the King. During the fourteen years he spent in Italy (1613-27), mainly in Rome, he came under the influence of Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio, the latter's influence being clear in the chiaroscuro of the present work. His prodigious talent brought him success there and he was made president of the Academia di San Luca before returning to France where he was to be the dominant figure in French painting in the second quarter of the 17th Century.
Vouet evidently painted himself a number of times during his life; the features we see in the Self Portrait in the collection of the Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon (acc.no. B 415) of circa 1626-7 are recognisable in the present portrait as well as in several others produced throughout his career such as the example offered at Sotheby's New York, 1 February 2018, lot 23 and the oval portrait sold at Dorotheum, Vienna, 17 October 2012, lot 551 and now in a Private French Collection. Judging by the youthfulness of the face, the present work probably dates from Vouet's first years in Rome, around 1613-15.
Saleroom notices
Please note that the catalogue entry for this work should read: Claude Vignon (Tours 1592-1670 Paris) Portrait of a young man, bust-length, in a ruff oil on canvas 56.1 x 43.8cm (22 1/16 x 17 1/4in). together with an engraving of Simon Vouet by Ottavio Leoni, unframed (2) £60,000-80,000 Provenance With Kleinberger & Co, New York, from whom acquired in 1960 Collection of Mr and Mrs Joseph McMicking, San Francisco and by descent Exhibited Travelling exhibition, Héritage de France French Painting 1610-1760,: Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 6 October-6 November 1961; Quebec, Le Musée de la province de Québec, 16 November-16 December 1961; Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada, 4 January-4 February 1962; and Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 16 February-18 March 1962, cat. no. 81 (as Simon Vouet) San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, on loan, August 1979- spring 1980 (as Simon Vouet) Literature P. Rosenberg, 'Nouvelles acquisitions. Musee du Louvre. Un tableau de Claude Vignon' in La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, 1968, vol. I, note 17, p. 43, fig. 238 (as Simon Vouet) B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford, 1979, vol. I, p. 211, cat. no. 731, vol. II, ill. (as Simon Vouet) P. Pacht Bassani, Claude Vignon 1593-1670, Paris, 1992, p. 176, cat. no. 21, ill. (as Claude Vignon) J-P. Cuzin, Figures de la réalité. Caravagesques français, Georges de La Tour, les frères Le Nain, Paris, 2010, pp. 126-7, cat. no. 139, ill. (as Claude Vignon) We are grateful to Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée for confirming the attribution to Claude Vignon.
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