L'Hiver (Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons)

Description

This print probably represents Winter,one of the Four Seasons Natoire etched that were advertised in the Mercure de France in 1735. These prints are all that remain to document four paintings on wood commissioned for the chateau of La Chapelle-Godefroy: confiscated during the Revolution, three of the oils, including Winter, were lost in a fire in 1814 of the chateau of Pont-sur-Seine, the residence of Laetitia Bonaparte; the fourth panel has since been lost.

L'Hiver (Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons)

Charles-Joseph Natoire

1735

Accession Number

141424

Medium

Etching on buff ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 26.8 × 26.8 cm (10 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 42.8 cm (11 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection