Simon Vouet Paris 1590-1649

The Madonna and Child

Details

Simon Vouet Paris 1590-1649
The Madonna and Child
oil on canvas
20 3/8 x 14¾ in. 51.7 x 37.5 cm.

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, before 1968.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1989, lot 107 ($95,000 to the present owner).

Literature

W.R. Crelly, The Paintings of Simon Vouet, 1962, p. 236, no. 177K, as 'a lost work known only from the engraving'.

Engraved

by Michel Lasne (1590-1667), with the inscription Sim. Vouet pinx and Masne f; this is described by Crelly as undated, but at least one print bears the additional inscriptions below the plate 'DILECTVS MEVS QVI PASCITUR INTER LILIA' Cant 2, Simon Vouet pinxit, and Cu. priuileg.Regis Christ. 1638

Lot Essay

A preparatory drawing for the upper half of the Virgin is in the Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen (Brejon de Lavergnée, op. cit., no. XCVII, illustrated). Another version of the painting in the Musée de Nîmes, is described by Mme. Brejon de Lavergnée as 'de moyen qualité'.

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