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Allegorical Female Figure Representing Painting with Attendant Putti

Charles Joseph Natoire
1700-1777

Allegorical Female Figure Representing Painting with Attendant Putti

12 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (307 x 368 mm)
Black chalk, with opaque white, on blue paper altered to gray.
1981.112

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Julius Fleischmann and John S. Thacher.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
This drawing is a study for the painting "The Union of Painting and Drawing", executed in 1746, which disappeared in 1767 and was recovered in 1981 in the Nahmani collection. It was engraved by Pelletier in 1750 for the Duc de Gesvres.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower right, "C. Natoire".
Associated names
Masson, Jean, former owner.
Stein, Adolphe, former owner.
Fleischmann, Julius, Mrs., donor.
Thacher, John S., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 281-282.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department