1984.604: Seated King or Hero
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1984.604
- People
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Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris)
- Title
- Seated King or Hero
- Other Titles
- Former Title: King Solomon
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1630
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294511
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk with traces of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk and graphite, laid down on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: laid down; none visible through mount
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, sold; to Germain Seligman, New York (as of 1978); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Fogg Art Museum, inv. no. 1984.604
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
- Accession Year
- 1984
- Object Number
- 1984.604
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), cat. no. 83, repr.
- Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 610, pp. 377-78, 761, repr.
- Diederik Bakhuÿs, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, and Elodie Vaysse, L'œil & la main: chefs-d'œuvre du dessin français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Rouen, 2019), p. 27, fig. 7
Verification Level
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