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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 |
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Provenance
M. de Mauméjan; (his estate sale, Lacoste and Henry, Paris, 29 June-2 July 1825, no. 47).[1] Miss E.M. Linton, Upper Basildon, Berkshire, England;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, 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] Georges Isarlo, Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen, Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263.
[2] Miss Linton's name was kindly supplied by Marijke Booth of Christie's Archive Department, London (e-mail to Anne Halpern, 5 December 2007, NGA curatorial files), as was the buyer's name from the auctioneer's book: H. Levat (or Cevat). "Levat" was perhaps buying for, or a pseudonym for, David Koester, who wrote to Colin Eisler (letter of 20 January 1969, NGA curatorial files) that although he had "not kept a record of [the painting's] exact source," he did recall that "he purchased the painting at Christie's, presumably in 1955 or 1956."
Associated Names
- Christie's, London
- Koetser Gallery, David M.
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K2177)
- Mauméjan, M. de
- Sale, Paris
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