Lot Essay
Other retouched drawings by Natoire are ilustrated in P. Stein, 'Copies and Retouched Drawings by Charles-Joseph Natoire', Master Drawings, 2000, pp. 167-187. Two others were exhibited at the Louvre (J.-F. Méjanès, Les collections du Comte d'Orsay: Dessins du musée du Louvre, exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, 1983, no. 111) and sold at Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 275.