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Kneeling Shepherd with a Staff. Verso: Sketches of a foot

Charles Joseph Natoire
1700-1777

Kneeling Shepherd with a Staff. Verso: Sketches of a foot

1745
15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (386 x 286 mm)
Red chalk counterproof on blue paper; verso: black chalk.
1983.82

Gift of Marcello Aldega.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This counterproof was pulled from a figure study probably intended for an Adoration of the Shepherds.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in black chalk, at lower right, "10000".
Associated names
Aldega, Marcello, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 282.
Caviglia-Brunel, Susanna, Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1700-1777, Paris, 2012, no. D.356.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department