Hubert Robert

Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a, the mark on b) and c) only)

A young woman holding her skirt: sheet cut down and part of her head has been silhouetted against backing sheet. A tear in the sheet at the level of her elbow and small area has been made up lower right. Red chalk still strong. Man smoking a pipe: Top left corner missing. Loss at lower margin. A small dark brown stainn at the level of the pipe, a few other lighter brown stains around the sheet. Red chalk still strong. Gentleman seen from behind: laid down. Cut and part of hat silhouetted against backing sheet. Strip of paper has been added below the lower margin. Red chalk still strong.
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See note to lot 84.  The figure of a young woman holding her skirt can be found in a pen and ink study in the Louvre, Deux femmes drapées, where we see the same young woman in reverse on the left of the drawing (fig. 1).¹  The same woman is also to be seen in a counterproof of a red chalk landscape, Vue d'un torrent, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon (fig.2).² 

1.  Les Hubert Robert de Besançon, exhib.cat., Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et D'Archéologie de Besançon, 2013, p.118
2.  Ibid., p. 118, no. 90