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accession number:	2008.405.b
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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)
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creation date:			1655–1660?
creation date earliest:		1655
creation date latest:		1660
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 17th century
technique:	black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	Drawings
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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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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support materials:

	description:	beige laid paper
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inscriptions:

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

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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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

	Tellas, Damien, and Michel Dorigny. Michel Dorigny, 1616-1665. 2019, 28, 70.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pg. 28; reproduced: p. 70, fig. 39.
	url:		

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