Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of a man in profile, turned to the left
Simon VouetLinkedCulture matchlcp-38c17be1eb99
- Date
- 1632–34
- Medium
- black and white chalks, red, pink and yellow pastel on light brown paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 441213
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Simon Vouet characterized this sitter, likely an advisor to the court of King Louis XIII, with a spontaneous pose and specific facial expression. The man’s distinguishing features are his deeply lined, almond-shaped eyes, and unruly head of hair, whose top has been flattened forward by the hat, which he holds to his side. Vouet introduced a more naturalistic mode of portraiture to France when he returned to Paris in 1627 after fourteen years in Rome. His typically frank presentations dissolved the space between the artist and sitter. Simon Vouet drew portraits of courtiers at the express request of King Louis XIII, who wanted to observe him in order to learn how to draw.
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- 1649: Atelier of the artist, Paris, France | Count Camille de Tournon-Simiane (1778-1833) | by descent to the previous owners, France | May 27, 2020: Christie’s, Paris, France | September 13, 2021-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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