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Charles Joseph Natoire
1700-1777
Allegorical Female Figure Representing Painting with Attendant Putti
Black chalk, with opaque white, on blue paper altered to gray.
12 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (307 x 368 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Julius Fleischmann and John S. Thacher.
1981.112
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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.
Inscription:
Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower right, "C. Natoire".
Provenance:
Jean Masson (no mark; see Lugt S. 1494a); his sale, Paris, Féral, 7-8 May 1923, lot 156; Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich; Adolphe Stein, Paris; Baskett & Day, London.
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.
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