Live Auction 2135Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture
Simon Vouet Paris 1590-1649
Lot 44

Simon Vouet Paris 1590-1649

The Madonna and Child

Closed28 January 2009

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USD 158,500

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Simon Vouet Paris 1590-1649
The Madonna and Child
oil on canvas
20 3/8 x 14¾ in. 51.7 x 37.5 cm.

Private collection, Paris, before 1968.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1989, lot 107 ($95,000 to the present owner).

Specialist note

A preparatory drawing for the upper half of the Virgin is in the Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen (Brejon de Lavergnée, op. cit., no. XCVII, illustrated). Another version of the painting in the Musée de Nîmes, is described by Mme. Brejon de Lavergnée as 'de moyen qualité'.