Published in March 2023

Catalogue published to mark our participation in the 31st edition of the Salon du dessin.

This major international event, which showcases the finest works of ancient, modern and contemporary art, is the focal point for all graphic arts events.

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The list of artists

In order of appearance in the catalogue

• Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, dit il PARMIGIANINO (Parme 1503 – Casalmaggiore 1540)
• Alessandro ALLORI (Florence 1535 – Florence 1607)
• Abraham BLOEMAERT (Gorinchem 1564 – Utrecht 1651)
• Simon VOUET (Paris 1590 – Paris 1649)
• Giovanni Manozzi, dit GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI (San Giovanni Valdarno 1592 – Florence 1636)
• Jacob JORDAENS (Anvers 1593 – Anvers 1678)
• Antonio de PEREDA (Valladolid 1611 – Madrid 1678)
• Marco RICCI (Belluno 1676 – Venise 1730)
• Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (Valenciennes 1684 – Nogent-sur-Marne 1721)
• Jean-Marc NATTIER (Paris 1685 – Paris 1766)
• Jean-Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755)
• François LEMOYNE (Paris 1688 – Paris 1737)
• Philippe MERCIER (Berlin 1689 – Londres 1760)
• Placido COSTANZI (1702 – Rome 1759)
• François BOUCHER (Paris 1703 – Paris 1770)
• Michel-Barthélémy OLLIVIER (Marseille 1712 – Paris 1784)
• Jean-Baptiste-Marie PIERRE (Paris 1714 – Paris 1789)
• Jean-Baptiste GREUZE (Tournus 1725 – Paris 1805)
• Giandomenico TIEPOLO (Venise 1727 – Venise 1804)
• Hubert ROBERT (Paris 1733 – Paris 1808)
• Johann-Heinrich FUSSLI (Zurich 1741 – Londres 1825)
• Louis-Roland TRINQUESSE (Paris 1746 – Paris 1799)
• Elisabeth VIGEE LEBRUN (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842)
• Louis-Léopold BOILLY (Bassée 1761 – Paris 1845)
• Jean-Urbain GUERIN (Strasbourg 1761 – Obernai 1836)
• Jean-Baptiste WICAR (Lille 1762 – Rome 1834)
• Jean-Baptiste ISABEY (Nancy 1767 – Paris 1855)
• Benjamin ZIX (Strasbourg 1772 – Pérouse 1811)
• Théodore GERICAULT (Rouen 1791 – Paris 1824)
• Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-St-Maurice 1798 – Paris 1863)
• Alexandre-Marie COLIN (Paris 1798 – Paris 1875)
• Pierre-François-Henri LABROUSTE (Paris 1801 – Fontainebleau 1875)
• Richard-Parkes BONINGTON (Nottingham 1802 – Londres 1828)
• Paul HUET (Paris 1803 – Paris 1869)
• Alexandre HESSE (Paris 1806 – Paris 1879)
• Théodore ROUSSEAU (Paris 1812 – Barbizon 1867)
• François BONVIN (Paris 1817 – St-Germain-en-Laye 1887)
• Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes 1827 – Courbevoie 1875)
• Henri LEBASQUE (Champigné 1865 – Le Cannet 1937)

Focus on the cover artwork

Simon VOUET (Paris 1590 – Paris 1649)
Study for a figure of Hercules spinning

Black chalk and white chalk highlights on beige paper
40×26 cm
Annotated in pen and brown ink lower centre “Dorigny”.

Preparatory study for the figure of Hercules in the tapestry Hercules spinning at the feet of Omphale, or Hercules and Omphale, part of the Amours des dieux hanging at the Château de Chambord (Fig.1)

Fig.1 Hercules spinning at the feet of Omphale, Château de Chambord

Our unpublished Study for a figure of Hercules spinning relates to the tapestry of Hercules and Omphale, one of the nine pieces of the hanging known as the Amours des dieux executed after Simon Vouet.

Listed by Maurice Fenaille in his État général des tapisseries de la manufacture des Gobelins published in 1923 (no. 7 p.338, reproduced on p.341), it depicts Hercules, seated, spinning Omphale’s spinning wheel. Omphale is leaning on his shoulder, and on the right two little lovers are playing with the hero’s club, while a third is shooting an arrow at him.

Simon Vouet had already dealt with the theme of the love between Hercules and Omphale in an unlocated painting known from an engraving by Michel Dorigny published in 1643.