Charles-Joseph NATOIRE (Nîmes 1700 - Castel Gandolfo 1777) Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, after Luca Giordano Black pencil, white gouache highlights, pen, brown ink and brown wash. Annotated lower left "Giordano". (Slightly insolate, small stains, large central vertical and horizontal folds, small edge tears and scratches). 43 x 56 cm on two attached sheets Natoire often drew after the Italian Baroque masters. Another study after Giordano, L'Apparition de la Vierge à Saint Bernard (see : S. Caviglia-Brunel, Charles Joseph Natoire 1700-1777, Paris, Arthena, 2012, p. 195, fig. D84, reproduced), shows his attachment to Luca Giordano. We have noted several compositions of this subject among the paintings identified by Giordano with elements found in this drawing, but not the painting that served as a model for Natoire.