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Simon Vouet

Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, c. 1635

Not on View

Medium

black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Brejon de Lavergnée 1987, no. 127, State XCIX

Accession Number

1971.17.3

Artists / Makers

Simon Vouet (artist) French, 1590 - 1649

Image Use

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Inscription

pasted to mount at lower left, in black ink by later hand: S. Vouet.; on mount at lower right, in graphite by later hand: TB 89

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 107); (Yvonne Tan Bunzl); purchased by NGA, 1971.

Associated Names

tan Bunzl, Yvonne, Ms.

Exhibition History

1972: French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; and the New York City Cultural Center, 1972-1973, no. 149, ill. p. 98, pl. II.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974. no. 52 (as Rachel and the Idols).

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978, p. 67 (as Rachel Carrying the Idols).

1989: From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century, Cleveland Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1989-1990, no. 58 in Cleveland catalogue (as Creusa Fleeing Troy).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009-2010, 52-53, 277, no. 17 (color).

Bibliography

1987: Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara. Dessins de Simon Vouet: 1590-1649. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1987: 127, no. XCIX.

1990: McCullagh, Suzanne. "Cleveland, Cambridge, and Ottawa: Seventeenth-Century French drawings." The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 234-235.

1990: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Review of From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century." Master Drawings XXVIII (1990): 432-433.

1990: The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 79, repro.

1995: Martinez, Benjamin and Jacqueline Block. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design. 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995: 131, fig. B.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.