VOUET, SIMON (1590-1649)

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VOUET, SIMON (1590-1649) , French painter, was born at Paris on the 9th of January 1590. He passed many years in Italy, where he married, and established himself 'at Rome, enjoying there a high reputation as a portrait painter. Louis XIII. recalled him to France and lodged him in the Louvre with the

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

of First Painter to the Crown. All royal

work

WORK

for the palaces of the Louvre and the Luxembourg was placed in his hands; the king became his

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

; he formed a large school, and renewed the traditions of that of Fcntainebleau. Among his scholars was the famous Le Brun. Vouet was an exceedingly skilful painter, especially in decoration, and executed important works of this class for

Cardinal

CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

Richelieu

(Rueil and I'alais Royal) and other

great

GREAT

nobles. His better easel pictures

bear

a curious resemblance to those of Sassoferrato. Almost everything he did was engraved by his sons-in-law Tortebat and Dorigny.

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