A group of figures around a fire at night

Details

Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
A group of figures around a fire at night
signed (?) 'H.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
4¾ x 8½ in. (122 x 215 mm.)

Provenance

A. Normand (L. 153c); Christie's, London, 6 July 1999, lot 148.

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Lot Essay

Probably a page from an album. A sketchbook of the same size, dating to the latter part of Robert's period in Italy, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (V. Carlson, Hubert Robert, Drawings & Watercolors, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, no. 15). A drawing of similar technique was sold in these Rooms, 25 March 1969, lot 196.

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