CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)

CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE (NÎMES 1700-1777 CASTEL GANDOLFO)
Diana seated on a crescent moon, circa 1723-1728
signed with ‘C.N.’, watermark
black chalk, red chalk, white heightening (oxydised)
10 x 7 3⁄4 in. (25.2 x 19.3 cm.)

Provenance
Possibly anonymous sale; Amsterdam, 14 September 1761, lot 1157.
Chevalier de Damery (died circa 1803) Paris (L. 2862, with an inscription on the backing of the laid down paper ‘Du Cabinet Du chr De Dameri/ Charles Natoire invt fecit’.)
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 July 1987, lot 157.
with Galerie Perrin, Paris, 1989.