Michel Dorigny

Michel Dorigny (1616–1665) was a French painter and engraver, born in Saint-Quentin, where his father Nicolas was a royal councillor. In 1630 he left home to join the workshop of Georges Lallemant, and in 1638 that of Simon Vouet, for whom he engraved many of the master's compositions so that they could circulate as prints. In 1648 he married Vouet's daughter Jeanne-Angélique, and after Vouet's death the following year he took over his lodging and studio in the galleries of the Louvre. Working on his own, he painted religious and mythological subjects and decorated houses in and around Paris, many of whose ceilings have since been destroyed; those he painted for Anne of Austria at the Château de Vincennes survive partly there and partly in the Louvre. He was received into the Académie royale in 1663 and made a professor the next year. His sons Nicolas and Louis also became artists. He died in Paris on 20 February 1665. Here: The Annunciation, which the Uffizi catalogued as Vouet's until 1972.