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SIMON VOUET (1590-1649)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 219 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON See also:VOUET (1590-1649)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:January 1590 . He passed many years in See also:Italy, where he married, and established himself 'at See also:Rome, enjoying there a high reputation as a portrait painter . See also:Louis XIII. recalled him to See also:France and lodged him in the Louvre with the See also:title of First Painter to the See also:Crown . All royal See also:work for the palaces of the Louvre and the Luxembourg was placed in his hands; the See also:king became his See also:pupil; he formed a large school, and renewed the traditions of that of Fcntainebleau . Among his scholars was the famous Le Brun . See also:Vouet was an exceedingly skilful painter, especially in decoration, and executed important See also:works of this class for See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu (See also:Rueil and I'See also:alais Royal) and other See also:great nobles . His better easel pictures See also:bear a curious resemblance to those of Sassoferrato . Almost everything he did was engraved by his sons-in-See also:law Tortebat and Dorigny .

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