Nicolas Mignard (Troyes 1606-1668 Paris)

Studies of legs, a drapery and the head of a putto (recto); Studies of arms and a head (verso)

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Nicolas Mignard (Troyes 1606-1668 Paris)
Studies of legs, a drapery and the head of a putto (recto); Studies of arms and a head (verso)
red, white and black chalk on light brown paper
16 3/8 x 11 in. (415 x 280 mm.)

Provenance

Nicolas Mignard's studio, by descent to
Pierre II Mignard, by descent to
Rose-Marie Mignard (1754-1824), to her son
Monseigneur de Prilly, thence by descent; Paris, 14 December 1998, lot 124.

Lot Essay

Most of the studies on the recto and verso of this sheet are related to figures in the Assumption of the Virgin painted in 1642 for the church of Mormoiron in the Vaucluse (A. Schnapper, Mignard d'Avignon, exhib. cat., Avignon, Palais des Papes, 1979, no. 20).

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