Female Nude Offering a Platter | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2010.612
People: Charles-Joseph Natoire, French (Nîmes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Title: Female Nude Offering a Platter
Other Titles: Former Title: Study of a Nude Girl Kneeling in Profile to the Left, Offering a Platter of Fruit
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/337221

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face

Dimensions

23.9 x 19.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: upper right, graphite: C. Natoire
inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 7/4 (?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Christie's, London, April 11, 1978, lot 137, pl. 43] sold; to Jean Massengale; [Sotheby's, London, July 4, 2007, lot 91, repr. (bought in)]; John Massengale, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jean Montague Massengale Collection
Accession Year: 2010
Object Number: 2010.612
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 426, 548-n.2

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