1984.592: Studies for a Figure and Head of a Woman

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)

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