- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1957.51
- People
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Charles-Joseph Natoire, French (Nîmes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo)
- Title
- Bacchanal
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1770
- Culture
- French
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor, brown, black, and gray wash, with white and colored gouache, over black chalk and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
- Dimensions
- 37.8 × 52.7 cm (14 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower left, black ink: C. Natoire
- watermark: None visible–drawing laid down
- inscription: signed, lower left, black ink: C. Natoire
- Provenance
- The artist’s estate; his second estate sale, Chariot, Paris, 14 December 1778 and the following days, part of lot 90, sold; to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Paris; Charles-François-René, Chevalier Mesnard de Clesle, Paris; his estate sale, Thierry, Paris, 2 January 1804, lot 18; Stephen Higgon, Paris; Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1957.51
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
- Accession Year
- 1957
- Object Number
- 1957.51
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 98, pp. 107, 186-87
Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), cat. no. 46, pp. 12, 49, 69, 71-n.18, 76-n.10, 106
Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), cat. no. 63, pp. 84-85
Émile Dacier, Catalogues de ventes et livrets de Salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, 1993), vol. 8, p. 63
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 63, 74-n.57
Mary Tavener Holmes and Donald Posner, Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England, ed. Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York and Princeton, 1999), p. 328-n.8
Jean-Francois Méjanès, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., ed. Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, 1999), p. 140
Jean-Francois Méjanès, Miradas sin tiempo: Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Colección Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., ed. Tomàs Llorens, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, 2000), p. 172
Susanna Caviglia-Brunel, “Des Finalités du Dessin chez Charles-Joseph Natoire", Revue de l’Art, Comité Français d'Histoire de l'Art (Paris, 2004), no. 143, pp. 35-48, pp. 35-36, 45-n.8
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), cat. no. 25, pp. 1, 6, 9-n.12, 12
Susanna Caviglia-Brunel, Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1700-1777, Arthena (Paris, 2012), cat. no. D. 608, pp. 165, 436-37
Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 28, 2015), p. 34
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 195, 285, repr. p. 192 as fig. 1
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 128, 499-n.3
- Exhibition History
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French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 09/02/1972 - 10/15/1972; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973
Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980
"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010
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
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
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