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Lot Essay
Another version of this drawing, in reverse, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, V. Carlson, op. cit., no. 39. The Cleveland watercolor, dated 1774, was executed by Robert over a black chalk counterproof of the present drawing.
The sequence of the two drawings shows how, for many years after his return from Italy, Hubert Robert still took his inspiration directly from his Roman experience: he kept the present drawing for seven years before exhibiting it at the Salon and retained the Cleveland counterproof for twelve years before coloring it. The present drawing is one of the three sketched by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in the margin of number 98 in his copy of the 1769 Salon exhibition booklet, J. Cailleux, op. cit., fig. 1.
The identification of the site with the Villa Pamphilj is traditional.
The sequence of the two drawings shows how, for many years after his return from Italy, Hubert Robert still took his inspiration directly from his Roman experience: he kept the present drawing for seven years before exhibiting it at the Salon and retained the Cleveland counterproof for twelve years before coloring it. The present drawing is one of the three sketched by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in the margin of number 98 in his copy of the 1769 Salon exhibition booklet, J. Cailleux, op. cit., fig. 1.
The identification of the site with the Villa Pamphilj is traditional.