Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet was born on January 9, 1590, in Paris.{{Britannica|633069}} His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet was also a painter, as also was Simon's wife Virginia da Vezzo, their son Louis-René Vouet, their two sons-in-law, Michel Dorigny and François Tortebat, and their grandson Ludovico Dorigny.File:Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen LACMA M.83.201.jpg]]

Simon began his 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. From Constantinople he went to Venice in 1612 and was in Rome by 1614.Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara. 'Simon Vouet', Oxford Art Online.{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.1959.html|title=Artist Info|website=www.nga.gov|access-date=20 April 2018}}

File:Simon Vouet - David with the Head of Goliath - Google Art Project.jpg, Genoa]]He remained in Italy until 1627, mostly in Rome where the Baroque style was becoming dominant. He received a pension from the King of France and his patrons included the Barberini family, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Paolo Giordano Orsini and Vincenzo Giustiniani. He also visited other parts of Italy: Venice; Bologna (where the Carracci family had their academy); Genoa (where, from 1620 to 1622, he worked for the Doria princes); and Naples.

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.

While in Rome he befriended artist Artimesia Gentileschi and painted her portrait in 1623.{{Cite web |last=Universalis |first=Encyclopædia |title=ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI |url=https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/artemisia-gentileschi/ |access-date=2022-12-11 |website=Encyclopædia Universalis |date=25 July 2012 |language=fr-FR}}

Vouet's immense success in Rome led to his election as president of the Accademia di San Luca in 1624.{{cite journal|last1=Bissell|first1=R. Ward|author-link1=R. Ward Bissell|title=Simon Vouet, Raphael, and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome|journal=Artibus et Historiae|date=2011|volume=32|issue=63|pages=55–72|jstor=41479737}} His most prominent official commission of the Italian period was an altarpiece for St Peter's in Rome (1625–1626), destroyed at some time after 1725 (though fragments remain.)Schleier, Erich. "A Bozzetto by Vouet, Not by Lanfranco." The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 109, No. 770 (May, 1967), pp. 272, 274–276.

File:Giuditta e Oloferne - Vezzi.png, the first wife of Simon Vouet, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes]]In response to a royal summons, Vouet returned to France in 1627, where he was made Premier peintre du Roi. Louis XIII commissioned portraits, tapestry cartoons and paintings from him for the Palais du Louvre, the Palais du Luxembourg and the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1632, he worked for Cardinal Richelieu at the Palais-Royal and the Château de Malmaison. In 1631 he decorated the château of the président de Fourcy, at Chessy, the hôtel Bullion, the château of Marshal d'Effiat at Chilly, the hôtel of the Duc d’Aumont, the Séguier chapel, and the gallery of the Château de Wideville.

Today, a number of Vouet's paintings are lost, and "only two major decorative schemes survive, those for the chateaux of Colombes and Chessy," but the details and imagery of many lost works are known from engravings by Michel Dorigny, François Tortebat, and Claude Mellan.

File:Family Tree of the artist Simon Vouet.jpgIn 1626 he married Virginia da Vezzo, "a painter in her own right... known for her beauty,"{{r|Crelly|p=10}} who modeled as the Madonna and female saints for Vouet's religious commissions. The couple would have five children. Virginia Vouet died in France in 1638. Two years later Vouet married a French widow, Radegonde Béranger, with whom he had three more children.{{r|Crelly|p=13}}

File:Vouet--St Francis of Paola resuscitating a child--1648--Quebec-- église-Saint-Henri-de-Lévis.jpg Resuscitating a Child (1648), L'église-Saint-Henri de Lévis, Quebec, "the apogee of French seventeenth-century painting."]]

As one art historian writes, "When Vouet returned to Paris in 1627, French art was painfully provincial and, by Italian standards, more than a quarter of a century behind the times. Vouet introduced the latest fashions, educated a group of talented young artists—and the public as well—and brought Paris up to date."

Vouet's style became uniquely his own, but was distinctly Italian, importing the Italian Baroque into France. A French contemporary, lacking the term "Baroque," said, "In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before." In his anticipation of the "two-dimensional, curvilinear freedom of rococo compositions a hundred years later...Vouet should perhaps be counted among the more important sources of eighteenth-century painting."{{r|Crelly|p=60}} In his works for the French royal court, "Vouet's importance as a formulator of official decorations is in some ways comparable to that of Rubens."{{r|Crelly|p=85}}

File:Vouet-Dorignt--Anne of Austria initials--grotesques--1647.jpg reproduces a section of the elaborate murals Vouet painted in the Palais-Royal in Paris for Anne of Austria, a decorative scheme no longer extant.]]

Vouet's sizeable atelier or workshop produced a whole school of French painters for the following generation. His most influential pupil was Charles le Brun, who organized all the interior decorative painting at Versailles and dictated the official style at the court of Louis XIV of France, but who jealously excluded Vouet from the Académie Royale in 1648.

Vouet's other students included Valentin de Boulogne (the main figure of the French "Caravaggisti"), François Perrier, Nicolas Chaperon, Michel Corneille the Elder, Charles Poërson, Pierre Daret, Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, Pierre Mignard, Eustache Le Sueur, Claude Mellan, the Flemish artist Abraham Willaerts, Michel Dorigny, and François Tortebat. These last two became his sons-in-law. André Le Nôtre, the garden designer of Versailles, was a student of Vouet. Also in Vouet's circle was a friend from his Italian years, Claude Vignon.

During his lifetime, writes Arnaud Brejon de Lavergnée, "Vouet's stature increased continually, his paintings becoming ever more beautiful, particularly in the last decade." But, "although his career was as brilliant as can be imagined," Vouet "played no role in the foundation of the Académie Royale" that was to be so dominant after his death, "and was neglected by the biographers and more influential amateurs. Between 1660 and 1690 only Poussin and Rubens were taken seriously...and later generations drew their own conclusions from this." Further eroding his legacy, "Vouet was undoubtedly at his greatest in these ensembles [his magnificent decorative schemes for chateaux and churches], most of which were destroyed during the Revolution" of the next century.Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld. "Paris: Vouet at the Grand Palais" (review of the exhibition). The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 133, No. 1055 (Feb. 1991), pp. 136–140.

Though never entirely forgotten by connoisseurs and collectors (such as William Suida), Vouet fell into a relative obscurity that was not remedied until William R. Crelly's monograph of 1962, and then by the major retrospective of Vouet's work at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1990–1991 with its colloquiumLoire Stéphane, editor. Simon Vouet: actes du colloque international Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 5-6-7 février 1991, Paris: Publication Information, c1992. and catalogue,Thuillier, Jacques. Vouet: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 6 novembre 1990-11 février 1991 (catalogue of the exhibition). Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, c. 1990. which Brejon de Lavergnée says fulfilled "its aim of rehabilitating the artist." "The Simon Vouet retrospective…is still vividly remembered. Since then, studies of the painter, his circle and his students have abounded, defining the image of the artist and his workshop ever more clearly."{{cite web |url= http://www.thearttribune.com/Simon-Vouet-the-Italian-years-1613.html |author=Rykner, Didier |title = Simon Vouet: The Italian Years 1613/1617 (review of the exhibit) |access-date= 2019-10-24 |publisher= thearttribune.com }}

The exhibition's organizer, Jacques Thuillier, "is surely justified in claiming the altarpiece of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple as among the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century monumental painting," writes Brejon de Lavergnée, who further asserts that in the artist's works of the 1640s, such as Saint Francis of Paola Resuscitating a Child, "one can see Vouet concluding his career with pictures of an immense gravity informed by an intense spiritual energy. Images of the greatest force, these paintings constitute the apogee of French seventeenth-century painting."

File:Simon Vouet--Two Modelli for Altarpiece in St-Peters--1625--LACMA.jpg|Two Modelli for Altarpiece in St. Peter's (1625), LACMA

• 1967: Vouet to Rigaud: French Masters of the Seventeenth Century, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, 20 April 1967 – 18 June 1967.
• 1971: Simon Vouet 1590–1649: First Painter to the King, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD, 18 February 1971 – 28 March 1971.
• 1990–1991: Vouet, Galeries Nationales of the Grand Palais, Paris, 6 November – 11 February 1991; a major retrospective of Simon Vouet's work.
• 1991: Simon Vouet : 100 neuentdeckte Zeichnungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 9 May – 30 June 1991; exhibition of 100 newly discovered drawings from the holdings of the Bavarian State Library.
• 2002–2003: Simon Vouet ou l'éloquence sensible, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 5 December 2002 – 20 February 2003; exhibition of drawings from the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
• 2005–2006: Loth et ses filles de Simon Vouet: Éclairages sur un chef-d'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, 22 October 2005 – 22 January 2006.
• 2008–2009: [http://exponantessimonvouet.free.fr/site_1024/accueil_francais.html Simon Vouet, les années italiennes (1613–1627)], Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 21 November 2008 – 23 February 2009, and Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, 27 March – 29 June 2009.

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File:Apparition de la Vierge et de l Enfant-Jesus a saint Antoine - Simon Vouet.jpg; displayed in Canada in 2017 and in France in 2018 in the exhibition [https://www.mnbaq.org/en/exhibition/the-fabulous-destiny-of-the-paintings-of-the-abbes-desjardins-1247 The Fabulous Destiny of the Paintings of the Abbés Desjardins /Le Fabuleux Destin des Tableaux des Abbés Desjardins]. A Can$30,573 restoration in 2016 removed a 19th-century Canadian artist's overpainting, including a dog and a pilgrim's flask that had changed Saint Anthony into Saint Roch.Durox, Solenne. [http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/confisques-pendant-la-revolution-ces-tableaux-ont-beaucoup-voyage-04-11-2017-7371879.php "Confisqués pendant la Révolution, ces tableaux ont beaucoup voyagé."] Le Parisien, 4 November 2017.

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Crelly's catalogue raisonné of 1962{{cite book |last=Crelly |first=William R.|title=The Paintings of Simon Vouet|publisher=Yale University Press, 1962.}}{{rp|147}} lists more than 150 preserved paintings by Vouet. Since that publication, "a number of paintings, some of them of considerable importance, have turned up in various parts of the world and the list of his work continues to grow."Fredericksen, Burton B. "Two Newly Discovered Ceiling Paintings by Simon Vouet." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 5 (1977), pp. 95–100. A new catalogue raisonné, by Arnauld and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, is forthcoming.{{cite web |url= https://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.27.html/2019/old-master-evening-l19033 |title = Simon Vouet, Study of a Young Woman as the Virgin |access-date= 2019-10-18 |publisher= sothebys.com }} This is a partial list by present location, and then, as possible, by date.

• Prince Marcantonio Doria d'Angri (1621)
• Saint William of Aquitaine (1622–1627)
• The Holy Family with St Elisabeth and the Infant St John the Baptist (1625–1650)
• Woman Wearing a White Veil (1630s)
• Allegory of Wealth (c. 1635–1640)
• Allegory of Charity (1630–1635)
• Gaucher de Châtillon (1632–1635)
• Allegory of Virtue (c. 1634)
• Heavenly Charity (c. 1640)
• Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (1641)
• Hesselin Madonna or Madonna of the Oak Cutting (c.1640–1645)
• Portrait of Louis XIII between two female figures symbolising France and Navarre (1643)
• Portrait of a Young Man
• Polymnia, Muse of Eloquence

• Presumed portrait of Aubin Vouet, the artist's brother (c. 1620), Musée Réattu, Arles
• Anges portant les instruments de la Passion (1625), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
• Cupid and Psyche (1626–1629), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
• Self-portrait (1626–1627), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
• Suite of the loves of Rinaldo and Armida (1631), based on Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered, collection of Guyot de Villeneuve, Paris
• Repentant Magdalen (1633), Musée de Picardie, Amiens
• Ceres Trampling the Attributes of War (1635), Musée des Beaux-arts Thomas Henry, Cherbourg-Octeville
• Deposition of Christ (c.1635), [http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/en Musée d'art moderne André Malraux], Le Havre
• Lot and his Daughters (1633), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, subject of a special exhibit in 2005–2006{{cite web|url=https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/edition-musee-des-beaux-arts/-/entity/id/277740|title= Loth et ses filles de Simon Vouet: Éclairages sur un chef-d'œuvre|website=www.musees.strasbourg.eu}}
• Crucifixion (1636–1637), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
• The Four Cardinal Virtues—Allegory of Temperance, Allegory of Force, Allegory of Prudence, Allegory of Justice (1638), Salon de Mars, Versailles
• Death of Dido (c. 1641), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole
• Time Vanquished by Love, Venus and Hope (1640–1645), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bourges
• Allégorie de la Charité (1640–1645; possibly a studio work), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Draguignan
• Last Supper, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

• Mary Magdalene (1614–1615), Quirinal Palace, Rome
• Angel with Dice and Tunic and Angel with Spear of the Passion (1615–1625), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
• Last Supper (1616–1620), Palazzo Comunale, Loreto
• Crucifixion (1621–6122), Chiesa del Gesù, Genoa
• Young Man with a ruff (1620), Luigi Koeliker Collezione, Milano
• David with the Head of Goliath (1620–1622), Palazzo Bianco, Genoa
• Nativity of the Virgin (c. 1629), San Francesco a Ripa, Rome
• Annunciation (c. 1621–1622), Uffizi, Florence
• Circumcision of Jesus (1622), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
• Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi with Painting Implements (c. 1623–1625), private collection
• Temptation of Saint Francis and Saint Francis Renouncing His Goods (1624–1625), San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome
• Saint Agatha's Vision of Saint Peter in Prison (c. 1625), Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

• The Annunciation (n.d.), Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• Lovers (1614–1618), Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• Judith (1620–1622), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Ill-Matched Couple (Vanitas) (c. 1621), National Museum, Warsaw
• Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice (c. 1623), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
• Time Vanquished by Love, Beauty and Hope (1627), Prado, Madrid
• Diana (1637), Cumberland Gallery, Hampton Court Palace, England
• Sleeping Venus (1630–1640), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
• Parnassus, or Apollo and the Muses (c. 1640) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
• The Awakening of Europa (1640), Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
• Artemisia Building the Mausoleum (early 1640s), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
• Judith, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• Saint Jerome (c.1620), National Library of Wales, Wales

• Saint Agnes (c. 1615), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• The Halberdier (c. 1615–1620), Dayton Art Institute
• Woman Playing a Guitar (c. 1618), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Portrait of a Gentleman (c. 1620), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• Saint Luke and Saint John (1622–1625), Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Saint Jerome and the Angel (c. 1622–1625), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Two Modelli for Altarpiece in St. Peter's (1625), LACMA, Los Angeles
• Saint Sebastian (c. 1625), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (1626), Legion of Honor, San Francisco
• Saint Cecilia (c. 1626), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• Salome (1626–1627), Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
• Angels with Attributes of the Passion: Angel Holding the Vessel and Towel for Washing the Hands of Pontius Pilate and Angel with the Superscription from the Cross (1627), Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA, Los Angeles
• Saint Mary Magdalen (c. 1630), Cleveland Museum of Art
• Diana and Endymion and Neptune and Amphitrite (1630s), Hearst Castle, San Simeon
• Madonna and Child (1633), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• The Muses Urania and Calliope (1634), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Aeneas and His Father Fleeing Troy (c. 1635), San Diego Museum of Art
• The Toilet of Venus (1640), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
• Sacrifice of Isacc (1642), Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee
• Venus and Adonis (1642), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• King David Playing the Harp (c. 1630s), [https://museumandgallery.org/object-of-the-month-july-2022/ Museum & Gallery, Inc.], Greenville, SC
• Bellona (1630), Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis

• The Fortune-teller (c. 1620), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Apparition of the Virgin and the Infant Jesus to Saint Anthony (1630–1631), by Vouet in collaboration with François Perrier, L’église Saint-Roch de Quebec, Quebec City
• Saint Francis of Paola Resuscitating a Child (1648), L'église-Saint-Henri de Lévis, Quebec

• St. Catherine (n.d.), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

File:"Chariclea Led Away by Pirates" (ca. 1634-35), tapestry from the workshop of Raphael de la Planche based on design by Simon Vouet.jpg, San Francisco]]

Compositions by Vouet preserved in tapestries{{r|Crelly|p=266}} include:

• Twelve tapestries based on scenes from Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered, including Rinaldo in the Arms of Armida at the Louvre.
• Six tapestries from the series [https://art.famsf.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=vouet&f%5B0%5D=field_art_class%3A2977 The Story of Theagenes and Chariclea] (1634–1635), based on scenes from the ancient Greek novel Aethiopica, at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
• Eight tapestries based on scenes from the Old Testament, including [https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/moses-saved-waters Moses Saved from the Waters (The Finding of Moses)] (c. 1630) at the Louvre.
• Eight tapestries based on scenes from the Odyssey.
• Twenty-three tapestries based on Loves of the Gods, including Neptune and Ceres and Aurora and Cephalus at the Hôtel de Sully.

File:Simon_Vouet_-_Parnassus_or_Apollo_and_the_Muses_-_WGA25372.jpg|Parnassus, or Apollo and the Muses (c. 1640), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

File:Simon Vouet - St. Catherine - Google Art Project.jpg|St. Catherine (n.d.), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

File:Simon Vouet - Magdalene - WGA25347.jpg|Mary Magdalen (1614–1615), Quirinal Palace, Rome

File:Amanti - Vouet.jpg|Lovers (1614–1618), Pushkin Museum, Moscow

File:Saint Agnes by Simon Vouet, Paris, c. 1615, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07774.jpg|Saint Agnes (c. 1615), Blanton Museum of Art

File:Woman Playing a Guitar MET DP-12928-001.jpg|Woman Playing a Guitar (c. 1618), Metropolitan Museum of Art

File:'The Halberdier' by Simon Vouet, Dayton Art Institute.JPG|The Halberdier (c. 1615–1620), Dayton Art Institute

File:Angelo con dadi e tunica - Vouet.jpg|Angel with Dice and Tunic (1615–1625), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

File:Angelo con la lancia della Passione - Vouet.jpg|Angel with Spear of the Passion (1615–1625), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

File:Vouet Portrait of a Gentleman.tif|Portrait of a Gentleman (c. 1620), Blanton Museum of Art

File:Saint Jerome (c.347–420) (kwf00534).jpg|Saint Jerome (c. 1620), National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

File:Simon Vouet - The Fortune Teller - WGA25350.jpg|The Fortune-teller (c. 1620), National Gallery of Canada

File:Vouet Vanitas.JPG|The Ill-Matched Couple (Vanitas) (c. 1621), National Museum, Warsaw

File:SimonVouet.JudithHolofernes01.jpg|Judith (1620–1622), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

File:Circoncisione di Gesù - Vouet.jpg|Circumcision of Jesus (1622), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

File:Vouet - Judith.JPG|Judith (c. 1620–1625), Alte Pinakothek, Munich

File:Simon Vouet--Saint Luke--1622-1625--Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|Saint Luke (1622–1625), Philadelphia Museum of Art

File:Simon Vouet--Saint John--1622-1625--Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|Saint John (1622–1625), Philadelphia Museum of Art

File:Simon Vouet, Saint Jerome and the Angel, c. 1622-1625, NGA 46151.jpg|Saint Jerome and the Angel (c. 1622–1625), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

File:Vouet-guillaume-louvre.jpg|Saint William of Aquitaine (1622–1627), Louvre

File:Simon Vouet - Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice - WGA25358.jpg|Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice (c. 1623), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

File:Portrait of Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi by Simon Vouet ca. 1623-1626.jpg|Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi with Painting Implements (c. 1623–1625), private collection

File:Vouet-Anges-instruments de la passion-Besançon.jpg|Angels Carrying Instruments of the Passion (1625), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon

File:Sant'Agata in carcere visitata da San Pietro - Vouet.jpg|Saint Agatha's Vision of Saint Peter in Prison (c. 1625), Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

File:Simon Vouet - Saint Sebastian - 1990.5 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Saint Sebastian (c. 1625), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

File:Vouet, Simon - Saint Cecilia - c. 1626.jpg|Saint Cecilia (c. 1626), Blanton Museum of Art

File:The Holy Family by Simon Vouet, California Palace of the Legion of Honor.JPG|The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (1626), Legion of Honor, San Francisco

File:Simon Vouet--Salome--1626-1627--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg|Salome (1626–1627), Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

File:Vouet-Psyché-Lyon.jpg|Cupid and Psyche (1626–1629), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

File:Simon Vouet - Angels with Attributes of the Passion Angel Holding the Vessel and Towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate - 69.36.1 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg|Angel Holding the Vessel and Towel for Washing the Hands of Pontius Pilate (1627), Minneapolis Institute of Arts

File:Simon Vouet - Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross - 69.36.2 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg|Angel with the Superscription from the Cross (1627), Minneapolis Institute of Arts

File:Vouet, Simon - Father Time Overcome by Love, Hope and Beauty - 1627.jpg|Time Vanquished by Love, Beauty and Hope (1627), Prado

File:Simon vouet, natività della vergine, 1620 ca. 04.jpg|Nativity of the Virgin (c. 1629), San Francesco a Ripa, Rome

File:Simon Vouet - Saint Mary Magdalen - 1988.108 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|Saint Mary Magdalene (c. 1630), Cleveland Museum of Art

File:Simon Vouet--Neptune and Amphitrite--Hearst Castle--1630s.jpg|Neptune and Amphitrite (1630s) Hearst Castle

File:Simon Vouet--Woman wearing a white veil--Louvre.jpg|Woman Wearing a White Veil (1630s), Louvre

File:Simon Vouet, Madonna and Child, 1633, NGA 206070.jpg|Madonna and Child (1633), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

File:Loth and his daughters mg 0028.jpg|Lot and His Daughters (1633), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

File:Simon Vouet--portrait of a man of 75--1634.jpg|Portrait of a Man Aged 75 (1634), chalk, pastel and ink on paper, private collection

File:Simon Vouet - The Muses Urania and Calliope.JPG| The Muses Urania and Calliope (1634), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

File:Cérès foulant aux pieds les attributs de la guerre, Vouet.jpg|Ceres Trampling the Attributes of War (1635), Musée des Beaux-arts Thomas Henry, Cherbourg-Octeville

File:Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy by Simon Vouet, San Diego Museum of Art.JPG|Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy (c. 1635), San Diego Museum of Art

File:Simon Vouet--Deposition of Christ--c 1635--Le Havre--Musée Malraux.jpg|Deposition of Christ (c. 1635), [http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/en Musée d'art moderne André Malraux], Le Havre

File:Simon Vouet 001.jpg|Allegory of Wealth (c. 1635–1640), Louvre

File:Simon Vouet (1590-1649) - Diana - RCIN 403930 - Hampton Court Palace.jpg|Diana (1637), Cumberland Gallery, Hampton Court Palace

File:Simon Vouet - Sleeping Venus - WGA25370.jpg|Sleeping Venus (1630–1640), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

File:Simon Vouet - Heavenly Charity - WGA25376.jpg|Heavenly Charity (c. 1640), Louvre

File:Simon Vouet--The Toilet of Venus--1640--Carnegie Museum of Art--Pittsburgh.jpg|The Toilet of Venus (c. 1640), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

File:Simon Vouet--The Death-of-Dido--c 1641.jpg|The Death of Dido (c. 1641), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole

File:Artemisia Building the Mausolaeum (Simon Vouet) - Nationalmuseum - 22229.tif|Artemisia Building the Mausoleum (early 1640s), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

File:Simon Vouet (French - Venus and Adonis - Google Art Project.jpg|Venus and Adonis (1642), J. Paul Getty Museum

File:Louis XIII by Vouet Louvre INV 8506) n01.jpg|Portrait of Louis XIII (1643), Louvre

File:Vouet Simon Vierge Hesselin.jpg|Hesselin Madonna or Madonna of the Oak Cutting (c. 1640–1645), Louvre

File:Simon Vouet Time Vanquished by Love Venus and Hope.jpg|Time Vanquished by Love, Venus and Hope (1640–1645), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bourges

File:VouetDraguignan (cropped).jpg|Allégorie de la Charité (1640–1645; possibly a studio work), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Draguignan

File:Simon vouet--portrait dhomme de profil tourne vers la gauche.jpg|Portrait of man in profile, turned to the left, n.d., private collection.

File:Simon vouet portrait du cardinal jules mazarin.jpg|Portrait of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, n.d., private collection

File:Cabinet, attributed to Pierre Gole, Paris, c. 1650, ebony, pine, interior applied with rosewood, tulipwood, oak, stained ivory, gilt bronze, mirror - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - DSC07720.JPG|Cabinet attributed to Pierre Gole"The carvings on the exterior doors may derive from Simon Vouet," according to Renée Dreyfus, Legion of Honor: Selected Works, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: 2007, p. 51. (c. 1620–1684), Legion of Honor, San Francisco

File:Simon Vouet--Self-portrait--Uffizi.tif|Simon Vouet, Self-portrait, Uffizi

File:Vouet--presumed self-portrait--1620-1625--Musée de Picardie.jpg|Simon Vouet, presumed self-portrait (c. 1620–1625), Musée de Picardie

File:Ottavio Leoni, Simon Vouet, 1625, NGA 945.jpg|Ottavio Leoni, Portrait of Simon Vouet (1625)

File:Vouet-autoportrait-lyon.jpg|Simon Vouet, Self-portrait (c.1626–1627) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

File:Simon Vouet by Nicolas Mignard.jpg|Nicolas Mignard, Portrait of Simon Vouet

File:Perrier--Simon Vouet--engraving--1632.jpg|François Perrier, Portrait of Simon Vouet (1632)

File:Simon Vouet by Robert Van Voerst after Anthony van Dyck.jpg|Robert Van Voerst (after Anthony van Dyck), Portrait of Simon Vouet

File:Francois Tortebat--Portrait of Simon Vouet.jpg|Portrait of Simon Vouet by his son-in-law, François Tortebat, Versailles

File:Frederic Hillemacher--portrait of Simon Vouet--etching--1854--British Museum.jpg|Frédéric Hillemacher, Portrait of Simon Vouet (etching, 1854), British Museum

File:Simon Vouet - presumed portrait of Aubin Vouet - without frame.jpg|Simon Vouet, Presumed portrait of Aubin Vouet, the artist's brother (c. 1620), Musée Réattu, Arles

File:Vouet--Urulsa da Vezzo as St Catherine--1620s.jpg|Simon Vouet, Portrait of a Woman, Probably Urulsa da Vezzo, Sister-in-Law of the Artist, as St. Catherine (c. 1620s), private collection

File:Simon Vouet Portrait of Virginia da Vezzo.JPG|Simon Vouet, fragment of a possible portrait of Virginia da Vezzo (c. 1624–26), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

File:Claude_Mellan,_Virginia_da_Vezzo,_1626,_NGA_73730.jpg|Claude Mellan, Portrait of Virginia da Vezzo (1626), wife of Simon Vouet

File:Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen LACMA M.83.201.jpg|Simon Vouet, Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA

File:Simon Vouet--Portrait of Angelique Vouet--Louvre.jpg|Simon Vouet, [http://ag.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/0/514396-Portrait-dAngelique-Vouet-vue-a-mi-corps-de-face-tenant-une-colombe-entre-ses-mains Portrait of Angélique Vouet] (his daughter), pastel, Louvre

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• Bissell, R. Ward (2011). "Simon Vouet, Raphael, and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome." Artibus et Historiae, Vol. 32, No. 63 (2011), pp. 55–72.
• Blunt, Anthony. "Some Portraits by Simon Vouet." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 88, No. 524 (Nov., 1946), pp. 268+270-271+273.
• Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld. "Four New Paintings by Simon Vouet." The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 124, No. 956 (Nov., 1982), pp. 685–689.
• Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld. "Paris: Vouet at the Grand Palais" (review of the exhibition). The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 133, No. 1055 (Feb., 1991), pp. 136–140.
• Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld. "Simon Vouet. Nantes and Besançon" (review of the exhibition). The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 151, No. 1272 (Mar., 2009), pp. 187–189.
• Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara. Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Inventaire général des dessins, École française, Dessins de Simon Vouet 1590–1649. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987. (Comprehensive catalogue of the drawings of Vouet in the Louvre and elsewhere.)
• Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara. "New Attributions around Simon Vouet." Master Drawings, Vol. 23/24, No. 3 (1985/1986), pp. 347–351+425-432.
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• [https://www.christies.com/features/Simon-Vouet-portraits-made-for-King-Louis-XIII-10343-1.aspx Three portraits by the artist who taught Louis XIII to draw], [https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/print_sale.aspx?saleid=28435&lid=1 auctioned at Christie's 27 May 2020]
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• [https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F03d8f_ Simon Vouet] at Google Arts & Culture
• [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/vouet/ Works] at WGA
• Simon Vouet paintings at the [http://hearstcastle.org/history-behind-hearst-castle/art/pieces/neptune/ Hearst Castle] in California
• Simon Vouet's [http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2887 Saint Agnes], [http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2880 Saint Cecilia], and [http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2949 Portrait of a Gentleman] at the Blanton Museum of Art
• [http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/221/simon-vouet-french-1590-1649/ Simon Vouet] at the J. Paul Getty Museum
• [http://artemoda.unibg.it/page.asp?menu1=3&cerca=1&aut=104&mac=0&sog=0 Self-Portrait of Vouet, with fashion notes] at Arte|Moda Archive, University of Bergamo
• [https://www.storiedellarte.com/2015/02/quando-il-matrimonio-e-darte-simon-vouet-virginia-da-vezzo-e-la-sua-giuditta-con-la-testa-di-oloferne.html Article about Vouet and his wife and fellow painter Virginia da Vezzo] (in Italian)
• [http://www.dhistoire-et-dart.com/Fortunecritique/VouetEffigiesItalie.html Sylvain Kerspern on portraits depicting Simon Vouet] (in French)
• [https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/normandie/calvados/caen/homme-figue-simon-vouet-sens-cache-tableau-du-musee-beaux-arts-caen-1683220.html L'homme à la figue (Man with figs)], a look at the coded sexual meaning of Vouet's painting at Caen (in French)

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