Hubert Robert (1733-1808)

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Hubert Robert (1733-1808)

A Triumphal Arch with a Quadriga

signed and inscribed 'avenue luini triomphateor/invenit et delineavit Romae Rome/Hubertius Robert anno 1759'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
450 x 615mm.

Lot Essay

The bridge and the triumphal arch appear, with differences, in a picture of the early 1770s at Barnard Castle and a drawing in the Albertina, see M. Roland-Michel, De l'Illusion à "l'Inquiétante Etrangeté": Quelques Remarques sur l'Evolution du Sentiment et de la Représentation de la Ruine chez des Artistes Français à Partir de 1730, in Piranèse et les Français, Paris, 1976, fig. 27.

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