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Attributed to Simon Vouet (Paris 1590-1649)
- The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

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Attributed to Simon Vouet (Paris 1590-1649)
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
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Sale 2322
Old Masters & 19th Century Art Including Select Works From the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
9 June 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

Attributed to Simon Vouet (Paris 1590-1649)
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
oil on canvas
39¾ x 28¾ in. (101 x 73 cm.)

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Provenance

(Possibly) Cardinal de la Valette, Rome, 1625.
(Possibly) Galerie Electorale, Düsseldorf, by 1752 until 1805.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 74, as 'Simon Vouet'.
Victor D. Spark; (+) Christie's, New York, 16 January 1992, lot 112, as 'Attributed to Simon Vouet'.

Literature

O. Lioni and A, Amidei, Ritratti di alcuni celebri Pittori del secolo XVII... Con le vite de'medesimi, Rome, 1731, p. 55.
A.J. Dezaillier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameus peintres, 1752, IV, p. 14.
N. de Piagage, La Galerie Électorale de Düsseldorf. Catalogue raisonné et figuré de ses tableaux...contenant 365 petits estamps... par Chreiten de Mechel, Basel, 1778, pl. VI, no. 56.
C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. École Française, Paris, 1865, I, p. 8.
L.-E. Dussieux, Les artistes francaise à l'étranger, Paris, 1876, p. 428.
L. Demonts, 'Essai sur la formation de Simon Vouet en Italie', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire d'Art Français, 1913, pp. 315, 341.
W. Crelly, The Painting of Simon Vouet, New Haven, 1962, pp. 238-239, no. 187, as 'a lost work'.
G. Dargent and J. Thuillier, 'Simon Vouet en Italie', Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte, 1965, IV, p. 45, no. A23, as 'a lost work'.
P. Rosenberg, 'A Vouet Drawing from the Artist's Roman Period', Master Drawings, Autumn 1990, XXVIII (no. 3), p. 313, fig. 2, as 'Vouet?'

Exhibited

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Vouet to Rigaud: French Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 20 April-18 June 1967, no. 3, as 'Vouet'.
Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, The Age of Louis XIII, 29 October-7 December 1969, no. 48, as 'Vouet'; also, St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, 5 January-8 February 1970. College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, The Works of Simon Vouet, 18 February-28 March 1971, as 'Vouet'.

Engraved

(Possibly) Claude Mellan, 1625, with the coat-of-arms of the Cardinal de la Valette and a dedication to him.

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