page_title: Virginia Vezzi
section_title: Other paintings attributed to Vezzi
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia Vezzi / Other paintings attributed to Vezzi
caption_attribution_description: English: France, circa 1627 Paintings Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.83.201) European Painting
context_page_description: Virginia Vezzi, sometimes given as Virginia da Vezzo, was an Italian painter, and the wife of French painter Simon Vouet.
context_section_description: A handful of other paintings have been attributed to Vezzi. All but one are roughly datable to her years in Rome.
  David Mandrella has suggested an attribution to Vezzi for another Judith, this one at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (see Gallery), currently attributed to Simon Vouet, but Mandrella's argument "does not convince" longtime Vouet/Vezzi scholar Arnaud Brejon de Lavergnée.
  Consuelo Lollobrigida attributes two other paintings to Vezzi, Self-portrait or Muse (1630-1632) in a French private collection (this would date to Vezzi's time in Paris; see Gallery), and an Allegory of Painting (c. 1620) in an Italian private collection, which Lollobrigida believes to be a self-portrait of Vezzi in the act of painting the young Simon Vouet (see Gallery).
  In 1992, Vouet specialist William R. Crelly suggested that Vezzi may have painted the Danaë at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin (see Gallery). Subsequently, a restoration of the painting uncovered a putto and an image of Jupiter that prompted the Blanton to attribute the Danaë to Jacques Blanchard (who painted another Danaë, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon). But as recently as 2013, art historian Guillaume Kazerouni has disputed the Blanchard attribution and repeated the suggestion that the Blanton Danaë may be by Virginia Vezzi.
  Another painting, of a woman in a red dress with a blue cloak and a cream shawl (see Gallery), has been attributed to Vezzi by Kazerouni and another art historian, Adeline Collange, who both believe it may be a self-portrait; however, Arnauld and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée do not believe the painting depicts Virginia Vezzi.
  An oil on copper Crucifixion has been listed as "attributed to Virginia Vezzi" by the Matthiesen Gallery in London (see Gallery).
caption: Simon Vouet, Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA.
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