SIMON VOUET
1590-164 9
77 Study of a Female Figure with
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Study of a Male Nude
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Black and white chalk; H: 38.7 cm (15'^in.); W: 21.8 cm
(8^9 /i6in.)
87.06.104
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom left cor-
ner, collection mark of Marquis Charles-Philippe de
Chennevières (L. 2072), unidentified collection mark
(L. 1516); (verso) unidentified collection mark (L. 1516).
PROVENANCE: Marquis Charles-Philippe de Chenne-
vières, Paris; François Heim, Paris (sale, Hôtel Drouot,
Paris, November 22, 1985, lot 4); art market, London.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.THE RECTO OF THIS SHEET APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN
made as a preparatory study for Vouet's painting Rinal-
do's Companions in the Garden ofArmida (Paris, M. Guyot
de Villeneuve collection). The picture is part of a series
of six illustrating Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (1575) that
seem to have been made for the Hôtel de Bullion in the
early 16305. The female figure is very similar in pose and
placement to the nymph in the right foreground of the
painting, though the putto does not recur in the latter. A
perhaps earlier study for the nymph, showing her look-
ing up and to her left, is in the Louvre (inv. RF 14729). The
muscular male figure on the verso of the Museum's
drawing cannot be connected to a painting but is broadly
similar to others by Vouet.
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