IDENTIFIERS
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id:	241908
accession number:	PD.14-2020

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 13 August 2020
updated:	Tuesday 24 May 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Thalia (or Thaleia) is one of the Nine Muses, the Ancient Greek goddess of comedy and pastoral poetry. As she is here, she is often depicted a joyful young woman. She is shown reclining on the ground, semi-nude, in a landscape with a male figure (possibly Apollo) behind and two young children either side (possibly the children of Thalia and Apollo, the Korybantes), the one to the left holding her attribute of a comic mask. Thalia is shown holding a shepherd's staff in her right hand, with books beside her and a banner across her lap and held in her left hand.
title:	drawing

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Jean-Denis Lempereur (his stamp Lugt 1740); Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd, London, 1999, cat. no. 25; Christie's New York, 26 January 2011, no. 291; Galerie Paul Prouté, from home purchased 10 May 2017


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241908





TECHNIQUES
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pen and ink with wash on blue paper
drawing

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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creation date:	1735 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1735
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Natoire, Charles Joseph

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 224

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 293



CITATIONS
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Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777)
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