Portrait of a Young Woman with Pearl Earrings
Simon Vouet (French, 1590-1649)
1632/35
- Medium
- Black chalk and pastel, heightened with white chalk, on light brown laid paper, laid down on an eighteenth-century mount with framing lines
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 27.7 × 21 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In 1627 King Louis XIII called Vouet back from Italy with important painting and tapestry-design commissions. This work is one of a group of about 30 recently discovered small-format pastel portraits of the royal entourage made for the king’s amusement.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
