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Charles Joseph Natoire
1700-1777
Kneeling Shepherd with a Staff. Verso: Sketches of a foot
1745
Red chalk counterproof on blue paper; verso: black chalk.
15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (386 x 286 mm)
Gift of Marcello Aldega.
1983.82
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Watermark: none.
This counterproof was pulled from a figure study probably intended for an Adoration of the Shepherds.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso, in black chalk, at lower right, "10000".
Provenance:
Marcello Aldega, Rome.
Associated names:
Aldega, Marcello, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 282.
Caviglia-Brunel, Susanna, Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1700-1777, Paris, 2012, no. D.356.
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