Simon Vouet
Introduced Italian Baroque to France
Simon Vouet was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. Simon Vouet was born in Paris. His father Laurent was a painter and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet and his grandson Ludovico Dorigny were also painters. Simon began his painting career as a portrait painter. At age 14 he travelled to England to paint a commissioned portrait and in 1611 was part of the entourage of the Baron de Sancy, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, for the same purpose. He remained in Italy until 1627, mostly in Rome where the Baroque style was becoming dominant. He was a natural academic, who absorbed what he saw and studied, and distilled it in his painting: Caravaggio's dramatic lighting; Italian Mannerism; Paolo Veronese's color and di sotto in su or foreshortened perspective; and the art of Carracci, Guercino, Lanfranco and Guido Reni. Vouet's immense success in Rome led to his election as president of the Accademia di San Luca in 1624.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Abraham Willaerts Student
- Charles Le Brun Student
- Charles Mellin Student
- Charles Poerson Student
- Claude Mellan Student
- Michel Corneille the Elder Student
- Michel Dorigny Student
- Nicolas Mignard Student
- Nicolas-Pierre Loir Student
- Pierre Mignard Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
- Caravaggio Source
- Paolo Veronese Source
- Guercino Source
- Guido Reni Source
Artworks by this artist (38 total)
- Euterpe, The Muse Of Music And Lyric Poetry
- Study of a Male Nude 1630-1635
- Saint Peter
- The Entombment 1649
- Angels Bearing the Column of the Passion
- Man with Raised Arm Behind a Parapet 1648
- Two Crouching Nude Male Figures ca. 1640
- Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross 1627
- Holy Family 1633
- Portrait of Louis XIII ca. 1632-35
- Saint Sebastian
- Saint Jerome and the Angel c. 1622-1625
- Venus and Adonis 1642
- Allegory between 1640 and 1645
- Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist’s Wife, as the Magdalen circa 1627
- Two women ca. 1630-35
- Model for Altarpiece in St. Peter’s 1625
- Die Muse der Musik mit zwei Genien, deren einer eine Trompete trägt
- A Bearded Man with a Staff
- Saint Mary Magdalen c. 1630