Claude Mellan
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Claude Mellan was a French draughtsman, engraver, and painter.
Self-portrait, engraving by Claude Mellan (1635), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sudarium of Saint Veronica, engraving by Claude Mellan, 1649
Simon Vouet
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Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created reli
Claude Mellan
…Gaultier. In 1624 Mellan went to Rome, where he studied engraving for a brief time with Francesco Villamena, who died that year. He then studied under Simon Vouet, who had been in Rome since 1614. Vouet encouraged Mellan to draw, considering it essential for both engraving and painting. Mellan engraved some of…
Self-portrait (c. 1626–1627) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA
David with the Head of Goliath (1620–1622), Palazzo Bianco, Genoa
Vouet family tree, simplified to show those known to be artists: Simon and his father, brother, wife, son, sons-in-law, and grandson