Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nîmes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Lot 291

Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nîmes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo)

Thalia, muse of Poetry

Closed26 January 2011

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Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nîmes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Thalia, muse of Poetry
signed 'natoire. f.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
8¾ x 11 5/8 in. (22.2 x 29.4 cm.)

J.-D. Lempereur (L. 1740), his mount and inscription 'Charles Natoire né à nimes en 1700 m. a C. Gandolfi 1777 elève ... Mr. de Vien, directeur de l'academie de Roma Ecole française'.
with Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 1999, no. 5; from whom acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Although it has not been possible definitively to link the present drawing with any particular lot in Lempereur's sale, beginning on 24 May 1773, it may be lot 572, described as 'Un dessein à la plume, au bistre & rehaussé de blanc au pinceau; premiere pensée d'un tableau que M. Natoire a fait pour l'appartement de la Reine'.
We are grateful to Susanna Caviglia for confirming the attribution of this drawing to Natoire.