Lot Essay
Jean de Cayeux compares this drawing to the Puit à Pompe in the Valence museum datable to 1770-2 (op. cit., no. 59).
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Le seau d'eau: A woman on a pontoon among trees lowering a bucket into a stream
Details
Hubert Robert (Paris 1733-1808)
Le seau d'eau: A woman on a pontoon among trees lowering a bucket into a stream
red chalk, watermark posthorn in a crowned cartouche above 4 and VANDERL[EY] and countermark GR
14 x 11 1/8 in. (355 x 282 mm.)
Le seau d'eau: A woman on a pontoon among trees lowering a bucket into a stream
red chalk, watermark posthorn in a crowned cartouche above 4 and VANDERL[EY] and countermark GR
14 x 11 1/8 in. (355 x 282 mm.)
Provenance
Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet, their stamp (not in Lugt).
Georges Bourgarel; Paris, 16 June 1922, lot 201 (2,500 francs to Owen).
Georges Bourgarel; Paris, 16 June 1922, lot 201 (2,500 francs to Owen).
Literature
J. de Cayeux, Les Hubert Robert de la collection Veyrenc au musée de Valence, Valence, 1985, p. 232, fig. 83.
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