The Muses Urania and Calliope
The Muses Urania and Calliope
- Artist
- Simon Vouet and Studio
- Artist Dates
- 1590-1649
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Title
- The Muses Urania and Calliope
- Date
- c. 1634
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 79.8 x 125 cm (31 7/16 x 49 3/16 in)
- K Number
- K2177
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.61
- Notes
Provenance
M. de Mauméjan; (his estate sale, Lacoste and Henry, Paris, 29 June-2 July 1825, no. 47). [1] Miss E.M. Linton, Upper Basildon, Berkshire, England; [2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1 July 1955, no. 154); (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich); [2] sold 1957 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Georges Isarlo, _Caravage et le caravagisme éuropéen_, Aix-en-Provence, 1941: 263. [2] Miss Linton's name was kindly supplied by Marijke Booth of Christie's Archive Department, London (e-mail to Anne Halpern, 5 December 2007, NGA curatorial files), as was the buyer's name from the auctioneer's book: H. Levat (or Cevat). "Levat" was perhaps buying for, or a pseudonym for, David Koester, who wrote to Colin Eisler (letter of 20 January 1969, NGA curatorial files) that although he had "not kept a record of [the painting's] exact source," he did recall that "he purchased the painting at Christie's, presumably in 1955 or 1956."