Circle of Charles-Joseph Natoire

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

The betrothal of Theagenes and Chariclea
Pen and brown ink and wash over red chalk, heightened with white

Provenance

Christian Humann;
Germain Seligman (L.3863),
with Jacques Seligman & Co. inc, New York

Exhibited

New York, The New York Cultural Center, Collectors Anonymous, four private New York Collections, 1972, p. 5, n.n. (exhibition label on backboard)

Catalogue Note

Stylistically, this impressive and elaborate drawing would appear to have been executed by an artist active in the south of France in the 18th Century, who was clearly influenced by Natoire.

The subject of the drawing is likely to depict the Betrothal of Theagenes and Chariclea, a story from an ancient Greek novel written by Heliodorus of Emesa, which is also known as Aethiopica, 'The Ethiopian Story.'