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Simon Vouet (1590-1649)

• Was a French painter.
• He studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France.
• He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king.
• His patron including Richelieu. • During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris,".
• In 1626 he married Virginia da Vezzo, "a painter in her own right...known for her beauty."
• She modeled as the Madonna and female saints for Vouet's religious commissions.
• Simon's brother Aubin Vouet, his son Louis-René Vouet, their two sons-in-law, Michel Dorigny and François Tortebat, and their grandson Ludovico Dorigny were also a painter.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Madonna and Child, 1633.
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