Hubert Robert
Capriccio with the Pyramid of Maupertuis
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hubert Robert
Paris 1733 - 1808
Capriccio with the Pyramid of Maupertuis
signed and dated lower center on stone: H. Robert 1798
oil on canvas
canvas: 37 ¾ by 47 in.; 95.9 by 119.4 cm
framed: 44 ½ by 53 ½ in.; 113.0 by 135.9 cm
Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi (1915-1996), Paris;
By whose estate anonymously sold ("Property of a Private European Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 21 May 1998, lot 133 (as a pair with Temple of Philosophy at Ermenonville);
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
J. de Cayeux, Hubert Robert et les Jardins, Paris 1987, pp. 118-119, reproduced fig. 92;
S. Cordier, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 153-155, 178-179, cat. no. 37, reproduced.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 37.