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Simon Vouet and Studio
Simon Vouet
French, 1590 - 1649
Simon Vouet and Studio
The Muses Urania and Calliope, c. 1634
oil on panel, 79.8 x 125 cm (31 7/16 x 49 3/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.61
From the Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting
Object 8 of 8


Literature

  • Isarlo, George. Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen. Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.
  • Pigler, Anton. Barockthemen. Budapest and Berlin, 1956: II:34-36, 174-175 (1974 ed., Budapest, 35-36, 184-185).
  • Picart, Yves. La vie et l'oeuvre de Simon Vouet. 2 vols. Paris, 1958: 29, pl. 30.
  • Manning, Robert L. "Some Important Paintings by Simon Vouet in America." In Studies in the History of Art Dedicated to William E. Suida on His Eightieth Birthday. London, 1959: 294-303, fig. 9.
  • Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 141, repro. pl. 132.
  • Crelly, William R. The Painting of Simon Vouet. New Haven and London, 1962: 89, 186, no. 83, fig. 177.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 315, repro.
  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 138.
  • European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 125, repro.
  • Leclair, Anne, and Pierre Rosenberg. "De Jean Dubois à Louis-Jacques Durameau: Note sur la Chapelle de la Trinité de Fontainbleau." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Année 1972 (1973): 17 note 3.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 313, no. 411.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.
  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 261-263, fig. 245.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 313, no. 408, color repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 429, repro.
  • De Lavergnée, Arnauld Brejon. "Une série de Muses de l'atelier de Simon Vouet." In Ex Fumo Lucem. Baroque Studies in Honour of Klára Garas. 2 vols. Budapest, 1999: 167-180, fig. 5.

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