Hubert Robert

Christine-Suzanne de Cholier, comtesse de Cibeins (1834-1897);

Jean Nicolay, by 1958;

Anonymous sale, Berne, Galerie Jürg Stukker, 1990s;

From whom acquired by a private collector;

Thence by descent to a private collector, Germany;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby’s, 1 February 2018, lot 68;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, EUROPA 1789: Aufklärung, Verklärung, Verfall, 17 September - 19 November 1989, no. 197.

J. Nicolay, "Les assiettes de prison d'Hubert Robert," in Connaissance des Arts 74 (April 1958), pp. 36-41, cat. no. 2, reproduced p. 36;

L. Seyfarth, in EUROPA 1789, Aufklärung, Verklärung, Verfall, exhibition catalogue, W. Hofmann (ed.), Cologne 1989, p. 192, cat. no. 197, reproduced in color fig. 14;

C. Boulot, in Hubert Robert et la Révolution, exhibition catalogue, H. Moulin and C. Boulot (eds.), Valence 1989, p. 96, under cat. no. 28;

J.-M. Bruson, in Hubert Robert 1733-1808, Un peintre visionnaire, exhibition catalogue, G. Faroult and C. Voiriot (eds.), Paris 2016, p. 402 note 3, under cat. no. 130; p. 408 note 7, under cat. no. 133.