ID 887438
Lot 145 | CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 900 000
La Source; and The Triumph of Bacchus
the first: signed and dated 'C. Natoire / 1763' (lower left)
oil on canvas
86 1/4 x 59 3/4 in. (219 x 151.8 cm.), each
(2)a pair
Provenance
Armand Frédéric Ernest Nogaret (1734-1806); (†) his sale, Hôtel de Gesvres, Paris, 6 April 1807, lots 27 and 28.
M. Weeb, New York; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 January 1868, lots 69 and 70 (incorrectly entitled 'Galatée sur les eaux [sic] entourée de Tritons et Dieux marins' and 'Bacchus buvant entouré de Faunes et Satyres').
La Rochefoucauld collection, Paris.
Private collection.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2012, lot 40, where acquired by the present owners.
Literature
Mercure de France, 1736, p. 1639.
G. Wildenstein, Le Salon de 1725, compte rendu par le "Mercure de France" de l'exposition faite au Salon Carré du Louvre par l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture en 1725, publié avec des notes et documents nouveaux sur les expositions de l'Académie pendant le XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1924, p. 2.
F. Boyer, 'Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Charles Natoire, peintre du roi,' Archives de l'Art Français, N.S., XXI, 1949, p. 46, no. 95.
Charles-Joseph Natoire..., peintures, dessins, estampes et tapisseries des collections publiques françaises, exhibition catalogue, Troyes, Nîmes and Rome, 1977, p. 42.
C.A. Hamilton and R. Downing, 'Mythological Paintings Exhibited at the Salon, 1699-1791,' in Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Philadelphia and Fort Worth, 1991-1992, p. 463.
P. Sanchez, Dictionnaire des artistes exposant dans les Salons des XVII et XVIIIeme siècles à Paris et en province, 1673-1800, III, Dijon, 2004, p. 1261.
S. Caviglia-Brunel, Charles-Joseph Natoire 1700-1777, Paris, 2012, pp. 267-268, nos. P75 and P76, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, July 1736 ('La Source' only).
New York, Wildenstein, The Arts of France from François 1er to Napoléon 1er: A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York, 26 October 2005-6 January 2006, no. 64.
| Artist: | Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700 - 1777) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700 - 1777) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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