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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.