FOLLOWER OF SIMON VOUETSAINT CECILIAOil on canvas127 x 100cm (50 x 39¼ in.)Provenance:Private collection, Blaisdon Hall, GloucestershireAn near-contemporary version of a picture by Vouet in the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas.Cecilia, a Christian martyr who lived in third-century, sits in front of a small organ. As the patron saint of music and musicians, she has been represented with a musical instrument since the fourteenth century. It is possible that Simon Vouet used his wife, the painter Virginia da Vezzo, as the model for the saint figure.