La Statue

Details

FOLLOWER OF HUBERT ROBERT
(PARIS 1733-1808)
La Statue
with inscription 'Robert' (lower right)
graphite, pen and black ink, grey and brown wash
12 5⁄8 x 8 3⁄8 in. (32.1 x 21.3 cm.)

Provenance

François Renaud (L.1042).
Comte de La Garde.
Princess of Colonna, Rome.
with Wildenstein Arte, Buenos Aires (as 'Hubert Robert').
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family, 1958.

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Lot Essay

The composition appears to be, in part, inspired by Hubert Robert's painting Laundress and Child, 1761, now at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (inv. 1955.843, see C.B. Bailey, P. Conisbee, T.W. Gaehtgens, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2003-2004, no. 91).

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