Simon VouetFrench, 1590–1649La mort de Didon
May one see it?
Unknown
Dole, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 92
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole — © Musée des beaux-arts de Dole, cl. Henri Bertand; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Simon Vouet
The whole life1627–1649
Post: Premier peintre du Roi
1638
Death of his wife Virginia
Virginia da Vezzo died in France — a Roman, “a painter known for her beauty”, Vouet's pupil and the model for his Madonnas, and the mother of his five children.
1640
Marries Radegonde Béranger
Two years after Virginia's death Vouet married a French widow, Radegonde Béranger, with whom he had three more children.
1640
The king sets Poussin against Vouet
Louis XIII summoned Nicolas Poussin, famous in Italy, to Paris with the words “Now Vouet is caught!” and deliberately set the two painters against each other. Vouet, a friend of Poussin, probably chose not to stop his supporters' pamphlets; in the end Poussin returned to Italy and Vouet kept his primacy at court.
1641
Death of his brother Aubin Vouet
Simon's younger brother, the painter Aubin Vouet (1595–1641), died.
