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Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso)

Michel Dorigny1655-60?

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Dorigny was the collaborator and son-in-law of Simon Vouet, the leading painter working in Paris in the mid-1600s. Their drawing styles are similar, and this sheet was once attributed to Vouet. However, the airy, floating drapery, firm contour lines, and regular parallel hatching lines are all typical of Dorigny's technique in black chalk. Although we do not know of a painting to which this drawing relates, the flying angels indicate that Dorigny had a religious subject in mind when he drew them.

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  • Title: Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso)
  • Creator: Michel Dorigny (French, 1617-1665)
  • Date Created: 1655-60?
  • Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
  • Provenance: Marquis Philippe de Chennevières (1820-1899) (Lugt 2072, lower left, in black ink). [Sotheby's, London (10 March 1977), 29, no. 159, repr. on p. 57]; purchased in 1977.
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.405
  • Medium: black chalk heightened with white chalk
  • Inscriptions: verso, lower left, in graphite: 225911 [sideways]; lower left, in graphite: 302 [underlined] / 1
  • Department: Drawings
  • Culture: France, 17th century
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
  • Collection: Drawings
  • Accession Number: 2008.405
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