ID 696431
Lot 96 | AFTER MICHEL DORIGNY (SAINT-QUENTIN 1617-1665 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
A satyr holding up a drapery
with inscription ‘Etude pour les Bains de l’Hotel de Lambert [crossed out]’ and ‘Le Sueur’ (on the mount)
black and red chalk, pastel, on light brown paper
12 1⁄2 x 11 in. (32 x 20 cm)
Provenance
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville (1680-1765), Paris (L. 2951, with his number ‘No. 2707’ and inscription ‘Le Sueur’); Paris, 18 January 1779, lot 349 (as Eustache Le Sueur).
George Usslaub (1845-1929), Marseille (L. 1221); Paris, 12-13 November 1929, part of lots 314 or 315.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 October 1983, lot 10 (as Charles de la Fosse).
Louis-Antoine Prat, Paris, acquired in 1983; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 181.
Literature
P. Rosenberg, ‘The Present Status of 17th Century French Drawings’, in W. Strauss and T. Felker, Drawings Defined, New York, 1987, p. 357, fig. 4.
J. Labbé and L. Bicart-Sée, La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris, 1996, no. 2707 (as Michel Dorigny).
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Masterful Studies. Three Centuries of French Drawings from the Prat Collection, 1990-1991, no. 11 (as ‘Michel Dorigny’).
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