Jean-Baptiste Nattier
This drawing is not on view, but is in the digital archive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It’s a lovely 18th century drawing by Jean-Baptiste Nattier.
This drawing, A Triton Blowing a Conch Shell, was presumably done as a study for a painting. Nattier used black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-brown laid paper. It is the size of a typical sheet of paper, 11″ x 8 7/8″. The toned paper from Canson would be perfect for this.
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