Editing Simon Vouet (section)

{{Short description|French painter (1590–1649)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name          = Simon Vouet
| image         = Vouet-autoportrait-lyon.jpg
| caption       = Self-portrait (c. 1626–1627) <br>[[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon]]
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1590|1|9|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Paris]], France
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1649|6|30|1590|1|9|df=y}}
| death_place   = Paris, France
| nationality   = 
| field         = [[Painting]], [[Drawing]]
| training      = Father's studio, years in Italy (1613–1627)
| movement      = [[Baroque painting|Baroque]]
| works         = 
| patrons       = [[Louis XIII]], [[Cardinal Richelieu]]
}}
'''Simon Vouet''' ({{IPA|fr|simɔ̃ vwɛ}}; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a [[French language|French]] painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by [[Louis XIII of France|Louis XIII]] to serve as [[Premier peintre du Roi]] in [[France]]. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including [[Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu|Richelieu]]. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris,"<ref name="Posner">Posner, Donald. "''The Paintings of Simon Vouet'' " (book review), ''The Art Bulletin'', Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sept., 1963), pp. 286–291.</ref> and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian [[Baroque painting|Baroque style of painting]] to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to [[Annibale Carracci]] and [[Giovanni Lanfranco|Lanfranco]]."<ref>Rosenberg, Pierre."''Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Inventaire général des dessins, École française, Dessins de Simon Vouet 1590–1649'' by Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée" (book review). ''Master Drawings'', Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), p. 414.</ref>