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Nicolas Dorigny
A Life Reconfigured by Silence The trajectory of Nicolas Dorigny was redirected by a physical change that many might have found devastating. Born in Paris, he began his adult life following the path of legal studies, a profession for which his education had prepared him. However, at the age of thirty, the onset of deafness forced a departure from the law and a turn toward the arts. This transition was not merely a change in occupation b
ut a complete reconstruction of his sensory engagement with the world. He did not approach the copper plate as an amateur. Trained by his father, Michel Dorigny, he brought a disciplined hand to the medium of engraving. While his early works utilized the point, he eventually developed a more sophisticated technique that unified the point and the graver. This method allowed for a vigorous style that sought to capture the light and shade…