Portrait of Louis XIII

Simon VouetWW-1632-320287

1632·Black and white chalk with touches of pastel on light brown paper·Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 5/16 in. (27.3 x 21.1 cm)

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2012

Catalogue

Year: 1632
Medium: Black and white chalk with touches of pastel on light brown paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 5/16 in. (27.3 x 21.1 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Simon Vouet

Artist

Simon Vouet

Painting

Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."

Paris, France

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