DrawingsFrench17th century

Three Putti

c. 1646

Artists

Simon VouetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

19.6 × 24.3 cm (7 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower right and left); R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara; E. V. Thaw & Co., New York; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.601

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