Simon VouetFrench, 1590–1649La Madeleine repentante
May one see it?
Unknown
Musée de Picardie
Amiens, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- M.P.Lav.1894-202
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée de Picardie
- Image: Musée de Picardie — © Bulloz, © Fonds musée de Picardie, © Cry, Didier; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Simon Vouet
The whole life1627–1649
Post: Premier peintre du Roi
1631
Decorating the châteaux and mansions of the nobility
Vouet decorated the château of the président de Fourcy at Chessy, the hôtel Bullion, Marshal d'Effiat's château at Chilly, the hôtel of the Duc d'Aumont, the Séguier chapel and the gallery of the Château de Wideville. Of his major decorative schemes only two survive, at the châteaux of Colombes and Chessy.
1632
Working for Cardinal Richelieu
Vouet worked for Cardinal Richelieu at the Palais-Royal and the Château de Malmaison.
