Hubert Robert
Four separate sheets of figure studies, mounted on an album page
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January 31, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
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Hubert Robert
Paris 1733 - 1808
Four separate sheets of figure studies, mounted on an album page
Red chalk, one study with touches of black chalk
bears old attribution to mount, lower left: H. Robert and further inscribed, lower right: Vente Robert 1809.
The album page: 17 ½ by 13 ⅛ in.; 447 by 333 mm
Probably estate sale of Hubert Robert, Paris, Maître Paillet et Olivier, 5 April 1809 (according to a pencil inscription on the backing sheet: Doit provenir de la vente Robert en 1809);
Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris;
Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen (L.1768a),
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14-15 June 1937, as part of lot 216 (as Etudes de figures dessinées en Italie);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 9 December 1967, lot 7;
Anonymous sale, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hôtel des Ventes de Neuilly, Claude Aguttes, 27 June 2003, lot 11;
With Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris;
From whom acquired by the present owner, 2007.
Paris, Galerie Didier Aaron, 2004, no. 15;
New York, Wildenstein, Four Painted dishes executed in the Prison of Saint-Lazare in 1794, Hubert Robert, French: 1733-1808, n.p., reproduced fig. 2.
J. Baillio, “Hubert Robert’s Decorations for the Château de Bagatelle,” in Journal of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 27 (1992), pp. 161-162, reproduced fig. 12;
Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, De Callot à Greuze: Dessins français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles des musées de Weimar, Weimar 2005, pp. 202-4, under cat. 72 , reproduced fig. 4 (entry by Benjamin Peronnet);
Y. Jackall and K. Rayner, “Becoming Hubert Robert: Some New Suggestions” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1416 (March 2021), pp. 251-252, reproduced in color p. 251, fig. 13.
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