FRANCOIS TORTEBAT (1621-1690) Portrait of Simon Vouet (1665) Oil on canvas (63 x 52 cm) Chateau de Versailles Quite unlike the many dazzling portraits of worthies shown to their best advantage by flattering regalia, the artist eliminated every single superfluous feature here, in order to concentrate on the sitter's almost hypnotic stare. Using thick paint, he scrupulously described …
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The Virgin and Child
SIMON VOUET (1590-1649) The Madonna Adoring the Christ Child (1623-26) Oil on canvas 118 x 132 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Simon Vouet is one of the most important French painters of the 19th century. His father Laurent, a painter himself, taught …
Old Masters 