Charles-Joseph NATOIRE (Nîmes 1700 - Castel Gandolfo 1777) Study for the painting of the chapel of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, hand painted Black stone and white chalk highlights on blue paper. (Glued in full on an old mount with an old annotation "Natoire" on the back). Fake signature "Natoire" added on the lower right. 40,5 x 26 cm Our drawing is preparatory to the painting Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, one of the fourteen panels that decorated the chapel of the Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés. The panels painted around 1748-49 were destroyed in 1874 at the same time as the hospital, to widen the square of Notre-Dame.