L'Hiver (Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons)
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
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141424
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.
About the Artist
Charles-Joseph Natoire · 1700–1777
Comment on works: Mythology