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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.94
People
Charles-Joseph Natoire, French (Nîmes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Title
Seated Young Artist Holding Drawing Materials
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study of a Seated Man Holding Drawing Materials
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295270

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk with traces of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
23.5 x 26.9 cm (9 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer; Fogg Art Museum, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 30, pp. 39-40, repr. p. 107
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 237-238, repr. p. 234 as fig. 1
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), repr. p. 11

Exhibition History

  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #1: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/14/2011 - 03/05/2011

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