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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.601
People
Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris)
Title
Three Putti
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1646
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294581

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 24.3 cm (7 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None visible–laid down
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: 2726
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: 8.
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 105.1978 / S. Vouet 2495

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower right and left); R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara; E. V. Thaw & Co., New York; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.601

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
1984.601
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. 87, n.p.
  • 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), pp. 122-23
  • Véronique Meyer, “Graveurs allegoriques executes dans l’entourage de Simon Vouet”, Simon Vouet: actes du colloque international, ed. Stephane Loire, La Documentation Française (Paris, 1992), pp. 331-48, pp. 343-44, 348
  • 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. 28, fig. 8, repr. p. 24 (detail)
  • 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. 13, repr., p. 80

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