The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso)
1655–60?
Location: not on view
Description
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.- 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.
- Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Referenced: cat. no. 1, p. 12-13, Reproduced: p. 13Tellas, Damien, and Michel Dorigny. Michel Dorigny, 1616-1665. 2019, 28, 70. Mentioned: pg. 28; reproduced: p. 70, fig. 39.
- French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.405