Drawing Detail
Antony Meeting CleopatraArtist: Charles-Joseph Natoire
Medium: Drawings, Pen and brush and brown and grey wash over preparatory drawing in black chalk, 36x62 cm
Date: 1753-1757
Genre: History
Source: Collection of A.N. Vorobyov, Leningrad, 1924
Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 - 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France.
He is remembered above all for the series of the History of Psyche for Germain Boffrand's oval salon de la Princesse in the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, and for the tapestry cartoons for the series of the History of Don Quixote, woven at the Beauvais tapestry manufacture, most of which are at the Château de Compiègne.