Charles-Joseph Natoire
A Stone Staircase in the Park at Arcueil
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles-Joseph Natoire
(Nîmes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo)
A Stone Staircase in the Park at Arcueil
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue watercolor over black chalk, heightened with white; figures added in pen and brown ink heightened with white over graphite, with later framing lines in pen and brown ink;
inscribed lower left in pen and brown ink, partially cut off, probably a signature and date: C Natoire 1747; by the artist at lower right in pen and brown ink, arcueil
233 by 323 mm; 9⅛ by 12¾ in.
Probably the artist's estate sale, Paris, 14 December 1778, lot 287 (fourteen views of Arcueil);
Private Collection,
sale, London, Christie's, 12 March 1948, lot 35 (as Hubert Robert);
with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam;
Stichting Collectie P. and N. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1974,
sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995, lot 86;
with W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Old Master Drawings, 1995, no. 36,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Franse tekenkunst van de 18de eeuw uit nederlandse verzamelingen, 1974, no. 77;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections, 1999, no. 22 (entry by Perrin Stein), and p. 49, under no. 21;
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 57 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli);
Paris, Musée du Louvre, À l’ombre des Frondaisons d’Arcueil. Dessiner un jardin du XVIIIe siècle, 2016, no. 29
L. Duclaux & A. Prache, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, Inventaire général des dessins. École française. XII. Nadar-Ozanne, Paris 1975, p. 38, under no. 56;
J.-F. Méjanès, 'A Spontaneous Feeling for Nature: French Eighteenth-Century Landscape Drawings', Apollo, vol. 104, no. 177 (November 1976), p. 404, n. 5;
L. Duclaux, Charles Natoire 1700-1777, Cahiers du Dessin Français 8, Paris 1991, no. 24;
S. Caviglia-Brunel, Charles-Joseph Natoire 1700-1777, Paris 2012, p. 348, no. D.400;
L.-A. Prat, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris 2017, pp. 121-2, fig. 192
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