Gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, Charles Joseph Natoire, 1760

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Gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, 1760, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, watercolor, heightened with white, over black and red chalk, 12 5/16 x 18 11/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Charles Joseph Natoire (French, Nîmes 1700–1777 Castel Gandolfo), Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1751 to 1775, Natoire taught many young French artists, including Hubert Robert and Jean Honoré Fragonard. During this period he received occasional commissions for paintings but increasingly devoted his time to landscape drawings, often worked up in watercolor

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