id:			166694
accession number:	2008.405
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Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso), 1655–60?. Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665). Black chalk heightened with white chalk; sheet: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.405

title:				Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso)
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creation date:			1655–60?
creation date earliest:		1655
creation date latest:		1660
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 17th century
technique:	black chalk heightened with white chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	Drawings
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	verso, lower left, in graphite: 225911 [sideways]; lower left, in graphite: 302 [underlined] / 1
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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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.
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wall 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 1, p. 12-13, Reproduced: p. 13
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	Tellas, Damien, and Michel Dorigny. Michel Dorigny, 1616-1665. 2019, 28, 70.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pg. 28; reproduced: p. 70, fig. 39.
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