
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003229Head of a Sea God
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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