Lot 97: Michel Dorigny (1617-1685)

A bacchanal black chalk, grey wash, a ruled border below for the address 111/4 x 81/4 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). ENGRAVED In reverse, by the artist. LITERATURE B. Br‚jon de Lavergn‚e, 'New Light on Michel Dorigny', Master Drawings, 1981, 4, p. 446, pl. 30. NOTES A study in reverse for one of six prints of bacchanals engraved by Dorigny after his own designs, B. Br‚jon de Lavergn‚e, op. cit., fig. 2. Other drawings for the same series are in the British Museum, London, and in private collections in Paris, B. Br‚jon de Lavergn‚e, op. cit., pls. 29 and 31-2.