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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.604
People
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
  • 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
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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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