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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
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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

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