Hubert Robert

Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a, only on A Gentleman carrying his coat)

Gentleman carrying his coat: cut down and laid down on backing sheet. A number of small holes/losses to the sheet in the lower section. Few dots of gouache at the level of the man's chin, perhaps there to cover a hole. Red chalk remains strong. Man wearing a turban: window mounted, mount covering the edges of the drawing (recto). Small brown stain in upper left corner. Otherwise red chalk still strong.
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See note to lot 84.  The figure of the man wearing a turban can be found in the lower right corner of Hubert Robert's painting, The Finding of the Laocoon, executed in 1773, now in The Virginia Museum of Fine Art (fig. 1).¹

1.  Hubert Robert, the pleasure of ruins, exhib.cat., New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc, 1988, p. 85, reproduced pp. 32-33