Adoration of the Kings

Adoration of the Kings

Claude VignonWW-1619-110842
1619·Etching on ivory laid paper, mounted on blue album sheet·Image: 24 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 21.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.6 × 34.1 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)

<p>Claude Vignon is one of the most interesting members of a community of 17th-century French artists who traveled to Rome and became attached to the Caravaggesque painter Simon Vouet. In 1619 he produced this etching, his first known original composition, which is thought to have been inspirational to Rembrandt. It is one of only 27 etchings produced by the artist throughout his life.</p>

Catalogue

Year
1619
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 21.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.6 × 34.1 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)

Artist

Claude Vignon
Claude Vignon

Printmaking

Claude Vignon was a French painter of the 17th century known for religious and historical compositions executed in a dynamic, naturalistic style informed by Caravaggio's dramatic chiaroscuro and the Baroque sensibility of Rome, where he trained. Active in Paris from the 1620s onward, he became a court painter and received commissions for altarpieces and royal decorative schemes. His work bridges Venetian colorism and northern European precision, rendered in oil on canvas with a restless energy and attention to narrative detail characteristic of Counter-Reformation art.

Tours, France

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Year
1619
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 21.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.6 × 34.1 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1619-110842

Source

Source
aic
Status
verified

Artist

Claude Vignon

Claude Vignon

Printmaking

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