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Charles Joseph Natoire
(3rd Mar, 1700 - 23rd Aug, 1777)
Psyché accueillie par les nymphes au seuil du palais de l'Amour
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
The Metamorphosis (Golden Ass) (Apuleius)
nymph
Psyche (mythology)
mythological scene
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About the artwork
Title:
Psyché accueillie par les nymphes au seuil du palais de l'Amour
Periods:
modern age
18th century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
wash with brown
pen (drawing)
black chalk
brown ink
white highlights
blue paper
Dimensions:
306 x 430
Inventory number:
INV31379-recto
Detail:
Etude pour le panneau daté 1737, à droite de la cheminée, dans le Salon ovale de l'Hôtel de Soubise à Paris
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Charles Joseph Natoire
Also known as:
Charles Natoire
Born:
3rd Mar, 1700
Dead:
23rd Aug, 1777
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
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…
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