Simon Vouet and Studio Simon Vouet (painter) French, 1590 - 1649 The Muses Urania and Calliope, c. 1634 oil on panel Overall: 79.8 x 125 cm (31 7/16 x 49 3/16 in.) framed: 105.4 x 150.2 x 10.2 cm (41 1/2 x 59 1/8 x 4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.61 On View

From the Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting
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Provenance

M. de Mauméjan; (Mauméjan sale, Paris, 29-30 June 1825, no. 47).[1] Private collection, England; (sale, Christie's, London, 1 July 1955, no. 154); (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich);[2] sold 1957 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Colin Eisler (Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian, Oxford, 1977: 263) writes that the inclusion of the painting in this sale was first published by Georges Isarlo, Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen, Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.

[2] See letter of 20 January 1969 from David Koetser to Colin Eisler, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

• Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
• Koetser Gallery, David M.
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K2177)
• MaumĂ©jan, M. de
• Sale, Paris

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