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Nicolas Mignard (Troyes 1606-1668 Paris)

Sold for $13,145 at Christie's on Jan 22, 2003.

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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. NOTES 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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