Michel Dorigny (1617-1685)

A bacchanal

Details

Michel Dorigny (1617-1685)
A bacchanal
black chalk, grey wash, a ruled border below for the address
11¼ x 8¼ in. (284 x 208 mm.)

Provenance

Hugh Howard.
Lord Nathan of Churt.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, Art in the Seventeenth Century, Spring, 1972 no. 167 (as Carpioni).

Literature

B. Bréjon de Lavergnée, 'New Light on Michel Dorigny', Master Drawings, 1981, 4, p. 446, pl. 30.

Engraved

In reverse, by the artist.

Lot Essay

A study in reverse for one of six prints of bacchanals engraved by Dorigny after his own designs, B. Bréjon de Lavergnée, op. cit., fig. 2. Other drawings for the same series are in the British Museum, London, and in private collections in Paris, B. Bréjon de Lavergnée, op. cit., pls. 29 and 31-2.

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