Details
HUBERT ROBERT* (1733-1808)
A Capriccio with the Temple of Concordia, the Arch of Titus and the Pyramid of Caius Cestius with figures before a fountain in the foreground
oil on canvas
39½ x 29¾in. (100.3 x 75.6cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Adrien Fauchier-Magnan collection, Paris, 1839, no. 38
Jacob M. Heimann
Anon. Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 23, 1950, lot 47 ($475)
with Findlay Galleries, Inc., Chicago
Literature
P. de Nolhac, Les Premières oeuvres romaines de Hubert Robert, La Renaissance de l'Art Français et des Industries de Luxe, Jan. 1923, I, pp. 22-3, no. 1
H. Voss, Opere giovanile di Hubert Robert in Gallerie Italiane, Dedalo, 1928, p. 751, note 1
Exhibited
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Landscape Painting from Patinir to Hubert Robert, Nov. 17-Dec. 7, 1941, nos. 62-3 (lent by Jacob M. Heimann)
