Head of a girl, looking up to the right

Details

Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nîmes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Head of a girl, looking up to the right
red and white chalk on blue paper
279 x 204 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 March 1974, lot 119 (to Russell for Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-37).

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Lot Essay

A study for the head of Dorothée in Dorothée surprise par le curé, le barbier et Cardénio, the first scene in Natoire's cycle of thirteen designs for tapestries telling The Story of Don Quixote, now at the Chateau de Compiègne, Don Quichotte vu par un peintre du XVIII^. siècle: Natoire, exhib. cat., Compiègne, Musée national du Château, and elsewhere, 1977, no. 5.
The tapestries were commissioned by Pierre Grimod Dufort (1692-1748), and woven at Beauvais. Only ten were actually completed, nine of which are now in the Musée des tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence.
Two counterproofs related to the cycle were sold at Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 131.

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