Hubert Robert (1733-1808)

View of the Chteau d'Amboise

Details

Hubert Robert (1733-1808)
Robert, H.
View of the Chteau d'Amboise
dated '1766'
red chalk on cream paper, watermark Vanderley with hunting horn below a crown and over CR
12 x 17.5/8 in. (318 x 447 mm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Cailleux, Paris.

Literature

E. Thomas, 'Les Logis royaux d'Amboise', Revue de l'Art, 1993, no. 100, p. 48 and 53, fig. 21.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1771, no. 88.
Galerie Cailleux, Le Rouge et le Noir: cent dessins franais de 1700 1850, Paris, 1991, no. 68.

Sale room notice

The first line of the note should read 'This drawing was executed by Robert just after his return to Italy....'

Lot Essay

The drawing was exhibited at the Salon of 1771 under the description 'Deux Dessins faits d'aprs Nature au Chteau d'Amboise', Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures de messieurs de l'Acadmie Royale, Paris, 1771, no. 88.
This drawing was executed by Fragonard just after his return from Italy, which he left on 24 July 1765. On 26 July 1766 he was elected Acadmicien of the Acadmie Royale and could exhibit at the Salon, held every other year. It was quite exceptional that an artist be granted the title of Acadmicien without having been first agre.