Thomas Charles Naudet, Mariage Moresque (Moorish Wedding Procession) – c.1820 watercolour painting

Thomas Charles Naudet Mariage Moresque (Moorish Wedding Procession)

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An original c.1820 watercolour painting – Thomas Charles Naudet, Mariage Moresque (Moorish Wedding Procession).

An exceptionally fine miniature drawing in black ink over brown wash brunaille by the French artist Thomas Charles Naudet (1773–1810). The brown is possibly bistre, which the artist was known to use.

The scene depicts a North African Islamic wedding procession titled 'Mariage Moresque', which was reproduced in the French travel anthology 'Choix de voyages dans les quatre parties du monde, ou précis des voyages les plus intéressans, par terre et par mer, entrepris depuis l'année 1806 jusqu'à ce jour', published between 1821 and 1823.

The anthology text was written by Jacques MacCarthy (1785–1835), who was originally from Ireland but went into service in the French army in 1800. He became a battalion commander, and in 1830 became head of the statistics section at the War Depot. He was a member of the Geographical Society and in this role published a number of geographical texts. Thomas Charles Naudet (1773–1810) was himself widely travelled and provided illustrations for the publication.

In black ink over brown wash (bistre) with white bodycolour highlights. On cream wove paper tipped on to backing paper.

Thomas Charles Naudet (1773–1810)

Thomas Charles Naudet (1773–1810) was the son of a publisher and printseller. Aged fifteen he enrolled at the L'école de l'Académie royale in Paris, and was trained as a landscape artist by the Romantic painter Hubert Robert (1733–1808). He was additionally influenced by the French draughtsman and engraver Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810).

Naudet frequently travelled on the Continent. He made his first trip to Rome when he was Hubert Robert’s pupil, where in 1806 his portrait was drawn by his friend Ingres at the Villa Medici. Naudet's figures have been likened to his younger contemporary living in Rome, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835). He also travelled with friends, including the Danish naturalist Tønnes Christian Bruun-Neergaard (1776–1824) and the French draughtsman and antiquary Louis-François Cassas (1756–1827).

Naudet presented his works at the Salon regularly, between 1795 and his early death, in 1810. At the beginning of his career, he produced numerous fashion drawings, caricatures, scenes of battles or from the French Revolution; he later on specialised more in landscape or town views.

He contributed illustrations for a number of publications, including the fifteen-volume French travel anthology 'Choix de voyages dans les quatre parties du monde, ou précis des voyages les plus intéressans, par terre et par mer, entrepris depuis l'année 1806 jusqu'à ce jour', published between 1821 and 1823.

Naudet's drawings were highly regarded by contemporary collectors, including Dominique Vivant-Denon, the first director of the Louvre.