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    24 January 2001

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    • Michel Dorigny (1617-1685)
    Lot 97

    Michel Dorigny (1617-1685)

    A bacchanal

    Price realised

    USD 44,650

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    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).

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

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


    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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