VOUET, Simon
(b. 1590, Paris, d. 1649, Paris)

Father Time Overcome by Love, Hope and Beauty

1627
Oil on canvas, 107 x 142 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

In 1627 Vouet returned from Italy and brought back to Paris a certain familiarity with a number of novelties and sksills and conventions which found an echo. He was an Italianate, however, not truly Baroque.