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Studies of Angels (recto); Panthea before Cyrus? (verso)
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
verso, lower left, in graphite: 225911 [sideways]; lower left, in graphite: 302 [underlined] / 1
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.
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665)
- Date
- 1655–60(?)
- Medium
- black chalk heightened with white chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 x 25.7 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.405
More by Michel Dorigny in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011533
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