Friday, February 10, 2023

Landscape and Figure Drawings by Charles-Joseph Natoire

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Terrace in the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine Hill, Rome
1759
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine Hill, Rome
1759
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Campo Vaccino and the Palatine Hill, Rome
1766
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Gardens at Frascati
1755
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Artists drawing Antiquities in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
1759
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Entry of Marc Antony into Ephesus
ca. 1772
drawing, with watercolor
(modello for painting)
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Clovis crowned by Victory
ca. 1730
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Lot and his Daughters
before 1777
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Charles-Joseph Natoire
Académie
ca. 1725
drawing
Musée du Louvre

from D.F.W.

I dated mostly police.
I hated coastal solace. 
In navy posts I flourished.
I inflate the cost of polish. 

I restrained my nest-egg worries.
On planes I tested patience.
I prayed for lusty follies.
I betrayed my foster family. 

– Sam Riviere (2014)