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CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)
Lot 137

CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)

Studies of the heads of a woman and of a bearded man and studies of hands

Closed17 April 2024

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CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)
Natoire, C.-J.
Studies of the heads of a woman and of a bearded man and studies of hands
signed ‘Natoire.’ (lower left)
red chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper
9 5/8 x 14 ½ in. (24.4 x 37 cm)

Julianus Antonius Heintzen, Jr. (1802-1878), Amsterdam; Roos, Amsterdam, 12 February 1879, lot 164 (unsold).
with Lorna Lowe, London (Old Master Drawings, 1985, no. 20, ill.)
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 12 January 1995, lot 97.

Specialist note

These are studies for the figures of Jacob and Rachel in the painting Jacob and Rachel leaving the house of Laban in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (inv. 1983.1; see Caviglia, op. cit., 2012, no. P. 24, ill.). The painting, together with two other canvases with episodes from the Old Testament, was commissioned in 1732 by Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, duc d’Antin and directeur général des bâtiments du Roi, for his residence in Paris. Another study for the same painting is at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (inv. 1871.439; see ibid., no. D. 113, ill.).