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Charles Natoire - Study for the Painting "Venus à la Fontaine"

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €

Charles Natoire

Study for the Painting "Venus à la Fontaine"

Black and white chalk on tinted paper. 38.8 x 27.5 cm.

The present work is a preparatory sketch for the figure of Venus in the painting "Venus à la Fontaine", which was exhibited at the Salon in 1742 as no. 23 (F. Boyer: Catalogue Raisonné de l´œvre de Charles Natoire, Archives de l´art francais, XXI, 1949, no. 61). The pendant work, "Venus à sa toilette", no. 24 (F. Boyer, no. 62), is currently housed in the Museum of Bordeaux, with the accompanying preparatory study for this Venus in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper.

Provenance

Claude Boisgirard, Paris 7.4.1995, no. 11. - Private ownership, Germany.