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Lot 80
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Hubert Robert

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hubert Robert
  • the temple of the sibyl at tivoli, a man in a cloak and hat standing on the steps, a group of monks to the right
  • Pen and black ink and watercolour over traces of black chalk;
    signed and dated in pen and grey ink on the rock in the foreground: H.ROBERT / 17 ?71

Provenance

Sale, Paris, Palais d'Orsay, 23 February 1978, lot 25;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January 2003, lot 85

Literature

J. de Cayeux, Les Huberts Roberts de la collection Veyrenc au Musée de Valence, Valence 1985, p. 86, fig. 11

Catalogue Note

Robert's drawings of the Temple of the Sibyl are generally dated to 1760, when it is believed he, along with Fragonard, spent the summer staying at Tivoli with the Abbé de Saint-Non who had rented the Villa d'Este.  This watercolour is illustrated in the Valence catalogue with a red chalk study of the temple, seen from a slightly different angle.  This is a carefully finished work based upon his earlier studies of the Tivoli ruins.  Its capriccio composition was repeated in reverse in another watercolour formerly in the collection of Louis Cartier.1

1. Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January 2004, lot 13.