A Personification of Music (1738). Charles-Joseph Natoire (French, 1700-1777). Oil on canvas.Na
A Personification of Music (1738). Charles-Joseph Natoire (French, 1700-1777). Oil on canvas.Natoire moved to Paris at the age of seventeen to apprentice with the painter Louis Galloche. He then studied with Francois Le Moyne, from whom he inherited a taste for the female nude. Natoire’s first known painting won him the coveted Prix de Rome in 1721. While at the Académie de France in Rome, he was recognized for his superb draftsmanship and received commissions from important patrons. -- source link
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