Christ on the Cross with Mary Magdalene
Purchased with funds provided by the Harold T. Martin Trust
Catalogue
- Year
- 1640
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 74.4 × 55.6 cm (29 5/16 × 21 7/8 in.); Framed: 101.3 × 86.7 cm (39 7/8 × 34 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Simon Vouet
Artist
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."
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- Simon Vouet
- Year
- 1640
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 74.4 × 55.6 cm (29 5/16 × 21 7/8 in.); Framed: 101.3 × 86.7 cm (39 7/8 × 34 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1640-160666
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified