Currently not on view
Study of a seated man with crossed legs
after Charles Joseph Natoire, French, 1700–1777
formerly attributed to Charles Joseph Natoire, French, 1700–1777
formerly attributed to Charles Joseph Natoire, French, 1700–1777
x1977-39
Life-drawing was at the very foundation of the academic program at the French Académie Royale de Pienture et de Sculpture. Drawings made directly after the nude model, such as this one, were executed by a professor as examples for the class and used for reference when designing large-scale compositions. A successful and versatile artist and educator particularly well known for his exquisite drawings, Natoire won the Prix de Rome in 1721, was appointed professor at the Royal Academy in 1737, and served as director of the French Academy in Rome from 1751 to 1774.
Information
Title
Study of a seated man with crossed legs
Maker
after Charles Joseph Natoire
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
48 x 39.9 cm (18 7/8 x 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mathias Polakovits
Object Number
x1977-39
Inscription
In brown ink, verso of secondary support, upper left: N 3921 | N 25583 au 7 | tissu ou oeil de Roy | a mouche D'ou | 3404 | 7/8 Le 8 May 1783 6 au 1/8 C. | N. 1750 - Inv. 1783 . au 6 | - 5/8 Le 28lo 1783 Gen 9/8 [illegible]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black ink, lower right: [oval with initials PM] [Lugt 3561]
Culture
Type
Materials
formerly attributed to Charles Joseph Natoire, French, 1700–1777
Seated Man with Crossed Legs
- James Henry Rubin, David Levine and Pierre Rosenberg, Eighteenth-century French life-drawing: selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1977)., cat. n. 19 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 35
- "Sixteenth-to eighteenth-century French drawings from the permanent collection: a checklist of the exhibition," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 43-49., p. 49
