
Adoration of the Kings
<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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Claude Vignon
Artist

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.
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1625 · Red and black chalk on laid paper
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1624 · canvas, oil paint (paint)
The Bodies of Sts. Peter and Paul
1620 · Etching on ivory laid paper
The Bodies of Saints Peter and Paul in the Same Sepulcher
1620 · Etching on paper
Record
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- Claude Vignon
- 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
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified





