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AFTER MICHEL DORIGNY (SAINT-QUENTIN 1617-1665 PARIS)
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
12Ω x 11 in. (32 x 20 cm)
$2,000-3,000
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.
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’).

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).
This study of a satyr is made after a painted decoration by Michel Dorigny
flanking the central medallion on the ceiling in the alcove room of the
Hôtel de Lauzun on Paris's Île Saint-Louis. The satyr seen in the drawing
is seen near the Sleep of Endymion, watched over by Diana (R. Boulhares
and M. Scoléranski, L’Hôtel de Lauzun, Vottem, 2015, p. 142, ill.). Dorigny's
decoration dates from the same time as the construction of the hôtel
particulier, between 1657 and 1658 (B. Brejon de Lavergnée, ‘Contribution à
la connaissance des décors peints à Paris et en Île-de-France au XVIIe siècle.
Le Cas de Michel Dorigny’, Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de l’Art français,
Paris, 1982, pp. 69-84).

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GERMAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
A ceiling design with an allegory of Time
with inscription ‘Nassini ???’, and with numbers ‘no. 44’ and ‘672’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and black ink, squared for transfer
16æ x 10 in. (42.5 x 25.5 cm)
$1,000-1,500
PROVENANCE:
The Collection of Khalil Rizk, New York.

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