Landscape with a Large Villa on a Hilltop

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Charles Joseph Natoire (French, Nîmes 1700–1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Date: 1759
Medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, over traces of black chalk for the figures and animals, heightened with white. Sheet composed of three sections joined together horizontally.
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession no.: 1975.131.120

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Charles-Joseph Natoire
1730/40 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003229
The Triumph of Neptune
Charles-Joseph Natoire
1766 or later · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011572
Rape of Europa
Charles-Joseph Natoire
1731 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011921
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles-Joseph Natoire
1740 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00015458