DrawingsFrench18th century

Bacchanal

c. 1770

Artists

Charles-Joseph NatoireArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor, brown, black, and gray wash, with white and colored gouache, over black chalk and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

37.8 × 52.7 cm (14 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.)

Provenance

The artist’s estate; his second estate sale, Chariot, Paris, 14 December 1778 and the following days, part of lot 90, sold; to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Paris; Charles-François-René, Chevalier Mesnard de Clesle, Paris; his estate sale, Thierry, Paris, 2 January 1804, lot 18; Stephen Higgon, Paris; Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1957.51

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