DrawingsFrench17th century

Kneeling Man with Raised Arms

c. 1635

Artists

Simon VouetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, bottom left corner and right edge made-up, laid down on a remnant of a Mariette mount

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29.7 x 21.7 cm (11 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1854, lower right, black ink); his sale, Basan, Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, part of lot 1385 or 1386; possibly Alexandre-Joseph Paillet or Philippe-Laurent de Joubert or Jean-Marie de Lastic de Saint-Jal, Abbé de Lastic; sale, Drouot (Charpentier et de Ribes), Paris, 1 April 1967, lot 43; Henri Baderou, Paris and Rouen; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower right and left); E. V. Thaw & Co., New York; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.599

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