id: 166696 accession number: 2008.405.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.405.b updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:30.509000 Panthea before Cyrus? (verso), 1655–1660?. Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665). Black 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.b title: Panthea before Cyrus? (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1655–1660? creation date earliest: 1655 creation date latest: 1660 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: black chalk department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, lower left, in graphite: 225911 [sideways]; lower left, in graphite: 302 [underlined] / 1 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tellas, Damien, and Michel Dorigny. Michel Dorigny, 1616-1665. 2019, 28, 70. page number: Mentioned: pg. 28; reproduced: p. 70, fig. 39. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.405.b/2008.405.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.405.b/2008.405.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.405.b/2008.405.b_full.tif