Apr 28, 2016 - Sale 2412

Sale 2412 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHARLES JOSEPH NATOIRE
Madame de Pompadour as Protector of the Arts and Sciences.

Pen and black ink and gray wash circa 1745. 135x92 mm; 5 3/8x3 3/4 inches. Purchased Baskett and Day Gallery, London, 1986.

Natoire's (1700-1777) design for an etching produced by Charles Nicolas Cochin II to commermorate Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's official chief mistress from 1745 to 1764.