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Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross, Simon Vouet, 1627, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Part of a series of 12 paintings by Vouet of angels holding symbols of the Passion; another is 69.36.1 (angel holding vessel and towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate) This angel holds a tablet inscribed “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin was placed on the cross, above Jesus. The painting belongs to a series of twelve angels carrying symbols of Christ’s Passion—the events associated with Jesus Christ’s suffering and death--which were painted for a private patron in Rome, Ascanio Filomarino, later appointed a cardinal of the Church and archbishop of Naples. Simon Vouet was one of the most important painters of his generation in France, ultimately serving as First Painter to King Louis XIII. From 1612 to 1627, he worked in Rome. These angels was among the last works he painted there, completed just months before his return to France. In Paris, he helped introduce French artists to the Baroque style: high drama, rich color, intense light, and dark shadows. /// We are grateful to Sebastian Schütze for clarifying the provenance of this painting. Size: 41 1/16 x 30 15/16 in. (104.3 x 78.58 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas

Woman Playing a Guitar, Simon Vouet, ca. 1618, European Paintings

Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Mary Trumbull Adams and Victor Wilbour Memorial Funds; Friends of European Paintings and Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Gifts; Gift of Julia A. Berwind, by exchange; Charles and Jessie Price, Otto Naumann, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr., and Sally and Howard Lepow Gifts; Charles B. Curtis Fund; and Theodocia and Joseph Arkus Gift, 2017 Size: 42 × 29 7/8 in. (106.5 × 75.8 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

Three Putti, Simon Vouet, c. 1646, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund Size: 19.6 × 24.3 cm (7 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.) Medium: Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Two Crouching Nude Male Figures by Simon Vouet, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Black chalk heightened with white on beige paper; two vertical ruled lines in red chalk, center

Rogers Fund, 1962 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross, Simon Vouet, 1627, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Part of a series of 12 paintings by Vouet of angels holding symbols of the Passion; another is 69.36.1 (angel holding vessel and towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate) This angel holds a tablet inscribed “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin was placed on the cross, above Jesus. The painting belongs to a series of twelve angels carrying symbols of Christ’s Passion—the events associated with Jesus Christ’s suffering and death--which were painted for a private patron in Rome, Ascanio Filomarino, later appointed a cardinal of the Church and archbishop of Naples. Simon Vouet was one of the most important painters of his generation in France, ultimately serving as First Painter to King Louis XIII. From 1612 to 1627, he worked in Rome. These angels was among the last works he painted there, completed just months before his return to France. In Paris, he helped introduce French artists to the Baroque style: high drama, rich color, intense light, and dark shadows. /// We are grateful to Sebastian Schütze for clarifying the provenance of this painting. Size: 41 1/16 x 30 15/16 in. (104.3 x 78.58 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas

Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross, Simon Vouet, 1627, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Part of a series of 12 paintings by Vouet of angels holding symbols of the Passion; another is 69.36.1 (angel holding vessel and towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate) This angel holds a tablet inscribed “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin was placed on the cross, above Jesus. The painting belongs to a series of twelve angels carrying symbols of Christ’s Passion—the events associated with Jesus Christ’s suffering and death--which were painted for a private patron in Rome, Ascanio Filomarino, later appointed a cardinal of the Church and archbishop of Naples. Simon Vouet was one of the most important painters of his generation in France, ultimately serving as First Painter to King Louis XIII. From 1612 to 1627, he worked in Rome. These angels was among the last works he painted there, completed just months before his return to France. In Paris, he helped introduce French artists to the Baroque style: high drama, rich color, intense light, and dark shadows. /// We are grateful to Sebastian Schütze for clarifying the provenance of this painting. Size: 41 1/16 x 30 15/16 in. (104.3 x 78.58 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas

Angels with Attributes of the Passion, the Superscription from the Cross, Simon Vouet, 1627, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Part of a series of 12 paintings by Vouet of angels holding symbols of the Passion; another is 69.36.1 (angel holding vessel and towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate) This angel holds a tablet inscribed “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin was placed on the cross, above Jesus. The painting belongs to a series of twelve angels carrying symbols of Christ’s Passion—the events associated with Jesus Christ’s suffering and death--which were painted for a private patron in Rome, Ascanio Filomarino, later appointed a cardinal of the Church and archbishop of Naples. Simon Vouet was one of the most important painters of his generation in France, ultimately serving as First Painter to King Louis XIII. From 1612 to 1627, he worked in Rome. These angels was among the last works he painted there, completed just months before his return to France. In Paris, he helped introduce French artists to the Baroque style: high drama, rich color, intense light, and dark shadows. /// We are grateful to Sebastian Schütze for clarifying the provenance of this painting. Size: 41 1/16 x 30 15/16 in. (104.3 x 78.58 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas