Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet , born with Paris the January 9th 1590, deceased in the same city the June 30th 1649 was a French painter.

After a long stay in Italy (1615 - 1627) where it will be named with the head of the Academy St Luc (1624), Simon Vouet imports into France the style Italian baroque, and in particular the manner of Paul Véronèse, that it adapts to great decorations of the time of Louis XIII and Richelieu. It was also First painter of the King. A great number as of its important decorative works (Castle of Chilly, Séguier Hotel) unfortunately disappeared.

Simon Vouet is the emblem of a French painting Baroque. “If the Brown one, David or, in a certain way, Delacroix existed, it is that there was initially Simon Vouet” , known as Denis Lavalle, inspector as a chief of the monuments historiques.
Une retrospective of the work of Simon Vouet was organized in 1990 with the national Galleries of the Large palace.

Friend of Claude Vignon, one of the Parisian painters most active since 1623, professor of Valentine of Boulogne, Michel Dorigny, Charles Le Brun, Pierre Mignard, Eustace Sweat, Nicolas Hood, Claude Mellan and Abraham Willaerts.
His/her brother Aubin Vouet (1595-1641) peintre.
His/her father Laurent Vouet (painter, architect).
Its wife Virginia da Vezzo (represented by its virgins and its Madonna).
Simon Vouet at two periods, caravagesque which finished with " intelligence, the Report and Volonté" with Rome and its own style which will make its success near the King Louis XIII and Richelieu.

It is a French great painter, moreover its tapestries will be as famous as those of manufacture and tapestries of Gobelins.

Note: expression celebrates " Here is Vouet well attrapé" , of Louis XIII .

Works

Cene , 1616 - 1620, (Palazzo Apostolico, Loreto) Italy
Portrait of young man , 1600-1650 (Louvre)
Prince Marcantonio Doria d' Angri , 1621 (Louvre)
Crucifixion , (Chiesa del Gesù, Génova) Italy
the Temptation of Saint François , 1624-1625 (church of Saint-Laurent-in-Lucina in Rome) Italy
Saint François gives up his Goods , 1624-1625 (church of Saint-Laurent-in-Lucina in Rome) Italy
the Holy Family with holy Elisabeth and the small saint Jean , 1625-1650 (Louvre)
the Time overcome by the Love, the Hope and the Fame , 1627, (Museum of Prado, Madrid) Spain
Deadened Venus , 1630 (Museum from the Art schools in Budapest)
Allegory of the Richness , 1630-1635 (Louvre) (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer)
Allegory of Charity , 1630-1635 (Louvre)
Allegory of the Virtue , 1640, (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer)
the Repenting Madeleine , 1633 (Museum from Picardy to Amiens)
Presentation of Jesus to the Temple , 1641 (Louvre)
Overcome Saturn by the Love , Venus and the Hope , 1646 (Museum of Berry in Bourges)

Holy Guillaume d' Aquitain , 1649 (Louvre)

Annunciation , (Gallery of the Offices of Florence)

Crucifixion , (Museum of the Art schools of Lyon)

Self-portrait , 1626-1627 (Museum of the Art schools of Lyon) copy?

Left-handed of Châtillon (1250-1328) , 1632-1635 (Louvre)

Loth and its Daughters , 1633 (Museum of the Art schools of Strasbourg)

the toilet of Venus , 1639

the Death of Didon

Portrait off Louis XIII between Two Figures of Women Symbolizing France and Navarre , (Louvre)

the removal of Europe , 1640 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid) Spain

Portrait off Louis XIII copies with the castle of Versailles , 1643

the Four Virtues Cardinal , 1638 (Living room of Mars with Castle of Versailles)

Allegory of Temperance

Allegory of the Force

Allegory of Prudence

Allegory of Justice

Decoration of the Law courts

Decoration of the Cardinal Palate, " Museum of the men it;

Decoration of the Castles of Rueil

Decoration of the Castle of the Dumb woman

Decoration of the New Castle of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer " to see - Four Cardinal Virtues "

Decoration of the Castle of Fontainebleau

Decoration of the residence of the Chancellor Séguier (hotel)

Decoration of the residence of the Marshal of Meilleraye

Decoration of the residence of the President Tuboeuf

Decoration of the church Saint-Nicolas-of-Fields in Paris, the Assumption , 1629, Apostles with the tomb of the Virgin

Decoration of the Saint-Etienne church in Chilly-Mazarin, Esevelissement of Christ , 1639

Decoration of the Hotel-Bullion

Royal Tapestries…

- Renaud and Armide, Renaud in the arms of Armide , 1630-1660 (Louvre)

- Brace saved water (Old Testament)

- life of Ulysses (work of Ulysses)

Judith , (Art gallery of Munich)
Venus and Adonis , 1642 (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Decoration of the church of Merry Saint in Paris, Holy Merry delivering the Prisoners, 1640
Christ with the column , (Eustace Sweat?) (Louvre)
Polymnie , MUSE of the eloquence (Louvre)
Cène , (Museum of the Art schools of Lyon)
the workshop of Vouet (where left the copies various…)
Holy Sebastian , 1618-1620 (Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation in the USA)
intelligence, the Report and the Will , (Museum of Capitole in Rome)
Virgin with the child with the pink , (Museum of the Art schools of Marseilles)
Virgin with the child Hesselin , (Louvre)
Allegory of the Art schools , (National Gallery in Rome)
Allegory of Charity , 1640-1645 (Museum of Draguignan)
Diane , (Somerset House in London)
the Virgin el the Child with an Angel , (Museum of the Art schools of Caen)
the Suicide of Lucrèce , (Narodni Gallery in Prague)
Roman Charity , (Bonnat Museum in Bayonne)

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