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Preview image of work. pen and brown ink with watercolor on two sheets of paper,  Design for a Wall Decoration 4237
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1956.24.273

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Design for a Wall Decoration

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Artist

Michel Dorigny (San Quentin, California, 1617 - 1665, Paris, France)

Title

Design for a Wall Decoration

Creation Date

ca. 1650

Century

17th century

Dimensions

14 13/16 in. x 16 15/16 in. (37.6 cm. x 43 cm.)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

Europe, France

Medium and Support

pen and brown ink with watercolor on two sheets of paper

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Susan Dwight Bliss

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1956.24.273

Michel Dorigny was a close collaborator and son-in-law of Simon Vouet (1590–1649), a leading seventeenth-century French painter who helped introduce the Italian Baroque to Paris. Dorigny popularized Vouet’s composition in over eighty engravings. The younger artist made a name for himself with decorative designs for some of the most prestigious private residences in Paris. None of these interior decorations survives. Dorigny’s many sumptuous drawings of wall designs, such as this sheet, are thus invaluable for the understanding of his contribution to the stylistic development of Parisian interiors at a particularly fruitful moment. It is unclear whether this drawing was destined for a specific commission or was meant for publication in a pattern book.

Keywords: figures (representations)   design   architecture   work on paper   master drawing   nude(s)