LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black chalk, with touches of red chalk and pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, within pen and brown ink framing lines, on blue paper

Measurements:

11.18 in. (28.40 cm.) (height) by 18.35 in. (46.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: C. Natoire 1755 and inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre: Tempio del Sole o della Luna

Exhibited:

Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM,. Architectural Worlds. Sergei Tchoban-Draftsman and Collector , 2010, no. 44. Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,. The Golden Age of Architectural Graphic Art Drawings by European Masters of the 18th -19th Centuries from the Sergei Tchoban Collection , 2010, no. 8;. Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, . Only Italy! Architectural Graphic Art of the 18th-21st Centuries , 2014, p.72, no. 11

Literature:

S. Caviglia-Brunel,. Charles-Joseph Natoire 1700-1777 , Paris 2012, p. 180, no. D. 33, reproduced, D.33

Provenance:

Possibly Charles-Joseph Natoire,. his posthumous sale, Paris, 14 December 1778 (part of lot 251 - a group of landscape drawings by Natoire, acquired by Augustin Ménageot (circa 1700-1784);. E. de Bruyn,. his second sale, Brussels, 13-15 December 1956, lot 202;. sale, Versailles, Hôtel des Chevau-Légers, 20 June 1982, lot 66;. sale, Paris, Thierry de Maigret, 23 March 2007, lot 70,. where acquired by the present owner