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Simon Vouet (1590-1649)
Early Life
Vouet's beginnings, like those of so many of his French contemporaries, Claude Vignon (1593-1670), Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Claude Lorrain (1600-82), and Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), were quite adventurous.
Son of a painter, Laurent Vouet, of whom almost nothing is known, he seems to have been sent to England when he was very young, then to Constantinople in 1611-12 and to Venice in 1612-13.
Career in Rome
Whether or not all these surmises are correct, Vouet was certainly in Rome in 1613, and, except for the short time he spent in Genoa working for the Doria family in 1621-2, lived there until his return to France.
He did however spend time in Venice, and almost certainly visited Milan, Piacenza, Parma, Bologna and Florence. In 1617 he received a brevet from the King of France and the following year a royal pension. By 1620 he had established himself as the leader of the French colony in Rome; he won prestigious commis
