Neptune and Amphitrite
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Charles-Joseph Natoire
(Nîmes, France, 1700–Castel Gandolfo, Italy, 1777)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1730s
MediumBlack chalk with brush and brown wash and white heightening on blue laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 7/16 × 14 9/16 in. (23.9 × 37 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1250
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1250
On View
Not on viewLike Boucher a pupil of François Lemoyne, and later a friendly rival, Natoire developed only modestly beyond his master’s style, inflecting it toward the Italians of the High Baroque, Pietro da Cortona in particular, and evolving a handsome decorative manner. This is one of two highly finished and signed drawings by Natoire in the Collection, both drawn at the beginning of his Roman period and intended for presentation. Despite some oxidation of its heightening, the drawing is extraordinarily well preserved.
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