Virginia da Vezzo
1626
17th century
17.2 cm x 14.8 cm (6 3/4 in. x 5 13/16 in.)
Claude Mellan
(Abbeville, France, 1598 - 1688, Paris)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Engraving
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Simkowitz in memory of Amy Cecelia Simkowitz-Rogers, 1998
Accession Number:
1998.330
The Da Vezzo family lived in Rome near the house that Mellan and the painter Simon Vouet, among other French artists, kept in Rome. Virginia became Vouet's pupil and, in the year of this portrait, his first wife.