Lot 180

Losses to lower left corner and edge, small loss to upper left corner, two small tears to upper right edge (one approx. 1cm wide, the other approx. 3mm wide), small abrasion to lower left quadrant in between the faces of the two putti, larger abrasion to lower right quadrant on figure's calf, stuck down to support paper, unexamined out of frame.


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Hôtel Drouot, Me Ader, 28 October 1949 (details inscribed verso)
Collection GF (Lugt 1151)
Collection N. Smith
Private collection, France
Private collection, Sydney

Jean-Marc Nattier was the son of the portraitist Marc Nattier (1642-1705). In 1702 Marc Nattier obtained a license to reproduce as engravings the twenty-four paintings comprising the monumental Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens in the Palais du Luxembourg. In order to undertake this he involved his two sons, including Jean-Marc, to execute the drawings from which the most prominent French engravers of the time made their reproductive prints. This drawing may be the lost original drawing for the print by Benoît Audran I in Jean-Marc Nattier's hand.

RELATED WORKS:
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640), The Presentation of her Portrait to Henri IV, Marie de' Medici cycle, Louvre, Paris
Benoît Audran I (1661 - 1721) after Jean-Marc Nattier after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, The Presentation of her Portrait to Henri IV (Henri IV délibère sur son futur mariage), engraving, published by Jean-Marc Nattier between 1707-1709