Portrait of a man in profile, turned to the left
1632–34
- Medium
- black and white chalks, red, pink and yellow pastel on light brown paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 20.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-211136
Simon Vouet characterized this sitter, likely an advisor to the court of King Louis XIII, with a spontaneous pose and specific facial expression. The man’s distinguishing features are his deeply lined, almond-shaped eyes, and unruly head of hair, whose top has been flattened forward by the hat, which he holds to his side. Vouet introduced a more naturalistic mode of portraiture to France when he returned to Paris in 1627 after fourteen years in Rome. His typically frank presentations dissolved the space between the artist and sitter.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2021.133
Registry history
- 1632–34 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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