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Hubert Robert
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description
- Hubert Robert
- Roman figures under an arcade;Roman figures in a cave
- a pair, both oil on canvas
- Each: 18 x 28 inches
Provenance
Private collection, France;
With Wildenstein, New York;
Where acquired by the present collector in 2000.
With Wildenstein, New York;
Where acquired by the present collector in 2000.
Literature
To be included in the forthcoming critical catalogue of the paintings of Hubert Robert in preparation at the Wildenstein Institute, Paris.
Catalogue Note
Hubert Robert spent over a decade (1754 - 1765) of his formative years in Italy, where he worked for the comte de Coiseul-Stainville, the French Ambassador to the Papal court, and was a pensionnaire at the Académie de France in Rome. One of his teachers at the Académie was Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765), whose lessons in perspective and depictions of the architectural monuments of ancient Rome were a great influence on the young Robert. This pair of paintings, dating from the first half of Robert's stay in Italy, recall the work of Panini in their subject matter and colorful, classically draped figures amongst Roman ruins.