Harvard Art Museums > 1955.24: Ulysses and His Soldiers at the Table of Circe Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Ulysses and His Soldiers at the Table of Circe (Simon Vouet) , 1955.24,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/294160. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1955.24 People Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris) Title Ulysses and His Soldiers at the Table of Circe Other Titles Former Title: Banquet Scene in a Classical Setting Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 17th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/294160 Physical Descriptions Medium Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white antique laid paper Dimensions 32.7 x 43.3 cm (12 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: none inscription: lower center, brown ink: Simon Vouët inscription: lower right, graphite: 36 inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: 3.12 3 / 9 / 6.17 / [illegible] inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: N6-04 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Hyman Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, sold; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, 1955.24 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund Accession Year 1955 Object Number 1955.24 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Pierre Rosenberg, "Dessins français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles dans les collections américaines", L'Oeil (Paris, 1972), no. 212-13, p. 10 Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 148, pp. 20, 222-23 Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 60, n.p. Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Dessins de Simon Vouet, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1987), p. 86 Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 56, pp. 118-19 Jacques Thuillier, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, and Denis Lavalle, Vouet, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1990), pp. 494, 499 Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), p. 106 Sue Welsh Reed, Richelieu: Art and Power, exh. cat., ed. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal/Wallraf-Richartz-Museum/Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon (Montreal and Cologne, 2002), cat. no. 148, pp. 329-30 Dominique Cordellier, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, ed., Maîtres du dessin européen du XVIe au XXe siècle: la collection Georges Pébereau, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre Éditions and Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2009), under cat. no. 11, p. 44 Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 12, repr., p. 80 Exhibition History French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 09/02/1972 - 10/15/1972; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973 European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979 From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990 Richelieu: Art and Power, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 09/18/2002 - 01/05/2003; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Fondation Corboud, Cologne, 01/31/2003 - 05/04/2003 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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