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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Head of a Sea God
    Charles-Joseph Natoire. Head of a Sea God, 1730/40. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003229

    Head of a Sea God

    by Charles-Joseph Natoire

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Jacques Petit-Hory, Paris. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings of the 15th-18th Centuries," 2 December 1989-8 June 1990. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 22; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

    Publications

    "From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 46-47 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Charles-Joseph Natoire / French, 1700-1777
    Date
    1730/40
    Medium
    Pastel on gray-brown laid paper
    Dimensions
    26.2 × 28.6 cm (10 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    The Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1989.194

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