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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.592
People
Michel Dorigny, French (Saint-Quentin 1617 - 1685 Paris)
Previously attributed to Eustache Le Sueur, French (Paris 1616 - 1655 Paris)
Title
Studies for a Figure and Head of a Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1644
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294755

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, upper left and right corners made up
Dimensions
24 x 33.4 cm (9 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, brown ink: Le Sueur .
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Germain Seligman (L.3863)
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: a Claude Lefebvre Le fils / peintre [this inscription was removed from the verso and is now in the curatorial file]
  • collector's mark: upper left, black ink: Unidentified collector's mark (L.3141)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Son of Claude Lefebvre; unidentified collector's mark (their mark, L.3141, upper left, black ink); Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower right, black ink); Robert M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (as of 1978), sold; to Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1984, inv. no. 1984.592

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.592
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français", L'Artiste: revue de l'art contemporain (Paris, 1894), p. 186 (as Eustache Le Sueur)
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), under cat. no. 84, p. 179
  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), cat. no. 52, n.p., repr.
  • Alain Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur, Arthena (Paris, 1987), under cat. no. 127, p. 266 (as Michel Dorigny)

Verification Level

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