Self-Portrait (Simon Vouet)

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Self-portrait
ArtistSimon Vouet Edit this on Wikidata
Year1626–1627
Dimensions45 cm (18 in) × 36.5 cm (14.4 in)

Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Simon Vouet, painted c. 1626–1627 during his stay in Rome as a protégé of Pope Urban VIII and cardinal del Monte, before Louis XIII recalled him to France in 1627. It may have been produced as a marriage gift to his new wife Virginia Vezzi, whom Vouet married in 1626, the same year as he began the self-portrait. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Patrice Béghain, Inconnues célèbres. Regards sur 30 portraits du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Stéphane Bachès, p. 116-117 (French)