Portrait of a Young Woman with Pearl Earrings
Simon Vouet
1632–1635
- Medium
- Black chalk and pastel, heightened with white chalk, on light brown laid paper, laid down on an eighteenth-century mount with framing lines
- Dimensions
- 27.7 × 21 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
chalkprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
