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CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)
Étude pour le portrait en pied du dauphin Louis (1729-1765)
avec inscriptions ‘Natoire’ (en bas à droite, à la plume et encre brune) et numéroté ‘1095’ (sur le montage)
pierre noire, craie blanche, pinceau, lavis gris, sur papier bleu
40,8 x 28,7 cm (16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Marque du monteur Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711-1786), Paris, (L. 1119).
Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867), puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.
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CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE, STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF LOUIS, DAUPHIN OF FRANCE, BLACK AND WHITE CHALK, BRUSH, GREY WASH, ON BLUE PAPER
Drawn with great vivacity on a sheet of blue paper, this study of a full-length figure staged with a torso column and a curtain in the background is to be related to the painted portrait of the crown prince Louis (1729-1765), son of Louis XV. Commissioned in 1746 for the prince’s new bedroom at Versailles, the painting is still in situ today (fig. 1; inv. MV. 3791; see S. Caviglia-Brunel, Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777), Paris, 2012, no. P181, ill.). There are two other related drawings in preparation for this painting: one with a composition very similar to the present sheet (in reverse compared to the painting), also on blue paper, is in the Musée Borély in Marseille (inv. 68.155; see op. cit., no. D. 395, ill.); the other, a more sketchy study of the Dauphin in full-length, is in the Musée Atger, Montpellier (inv. MA 44; see op. cit., no. D. 396, ill.).