Live Auction 5979Old Master, 19th Century and British Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 604

Follower of Simon Vouet

Apollo and a nymph with two river gods

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 937

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Follower of Simon Vouet
Apollo and a nymph with two river gods
numbered '16' and '168'
black chalk, brown wash, watermark encircled lamb
14 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (36 x 27.7 cm.)

Specialist note

After figures from Vouet's painting on the ceiling of the Library at the Hôtel Séguier, which was engraved by Michel Dorigny in 1640. The composition of the present drawing reverses that of the engraving, and the artist has added a figure between the nymph and the river god who does not appear in the original painting (W.R. Crelly, The Painting of Simon Vouet, New Haven and London, 1962, fig. 145).