Study of Hands
Charles Joseph Natoire
ca. 1761 · Black and white chalks on blue paper · Drawings and Prints
This delicate study of hands is a rarity in Natoire’s oeuvre as he painted portraits only occasionally. This drawing is a study for a self-portrait that was commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for his famous gallery of artists’s self-portraits. In the painting, Natoire holds a porte-crayon in his right hand and displays his cordon de Saint-Michel in his left. It is rare, also, to find such a study on a large un-cut sheet of paper.
- Artist
- Charles Joseph Natoire
- Date
- ca. 1761
- Medium
- Black and white chalks on blue paper
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis de Bayser, 2014