'La Balançoire': Lovers playing on a seesaw

Details

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
'La Balançoire': Lovers playing on a seesaw
brown ink, watercolor, oval
288 x 368 mm.

Provenance

Alphonse Kann, Paris.
David David-Weill, Paris, by 1913.

Literature

G. Henriot, Collection David-Weill, Paris, 1928, II ('Pastels, Acquerelles...'), pp. 171-172, illustrated p. 173.

Exhibited

New York, Wilderstein and Co., French XVIII Century Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection, November-December 1938, no. 41.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Exhibition of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. André Meyer, June-July 1962, p. 36.

Lot Essay

The drawing is closely related to the painting La Balançoire, that is signed and dated 1786 and was formerly in the collections of Ernest Gouin, Jules Bache, and Wildenstein & Co., New York. (See Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, July-August 1925, p. 107, for illustration.)

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